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Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.
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- 1 nomination
Tom McBeath
- Principal
- (as Tom Mcbeath)
Jenn Griffin
- Tattooist
- (as Jennifer Griffin)
Laurence Fishburne
- Stokes
- (as Larry Fishburne)
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- TriviaGary Busey was cast as McKinney. However, nine days into production, Busey's erratic behavior on set caused director Martin Sheen to fire him and step into the role himself.
- GoofsThe flags in the courtroom are reversed; the flag of the United States should be positioned to its own right of any other flag or standard, even on an American military installation on foreign soil. Also U.S. Army flags or standards, even the National Flag, should have spearhead pole finials instead of eagle pole finials. Eagles are reserved for civilian flags and the President of the United States.
- Quotes
[repeated line]
Cpl. Gerald Gessner: Gig for Bean!
- SoundtracksChain Gang
Written by Sam Cooke
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Another rebel soldier
Cadence casts Charlie Sheen as a rebel soldier during the Vietnam era in the tradition of Montgomery Clift as Robert E.Lee Pruitt in From Here To Eternity.
The film is also directed by dad Martin Sheen who has a nice role as the stockade
sergeant.
Charlie's gone AWOL after his dad died and in a drunken did the stupid thing of hitting an MP. That got him 90 days in the stockade, where all the other prisoners there are black.
Stockade sergeant Martin Sheen is merely a sadist to Charlie. But add the element of racism with the others. He hopes Charlie will be an ally of sorts, But it doesn't work out that way as Charlie more and more sides with his fellow stockade prisoners.
Martin Sheen is a wonder and you won't see one hint of President Josiah Bartlett in this performance. The scenes directed dad between father and son are special.
Others in the cast are Laurence Fishburne and Blu Mankuma among the prisoners.
This is a real good military drama.
Charlie's gone AWOL after his dad died and in a drunken did the stupid thing of hitting an MP. That got him 90 days in the stockade, where all the other prisoners there are black.
Stockade sergeant Martin Sheen is merely a sadist to Charlie. But add the element of racism with the others. He hopes Charlie will be an ally of sorts, But it doesn't work out that way as Charlie more and more sides with his fellow stockade prisoners.
Martin Sheen is a wonder and you won't see one hint of President Josiah Bartlett in this performance. The scenes directed dad between father and son are special.
Others in the cast are Laurence Fishburne and Blu Mankuma among the prisoners.
This is a real good military drama.
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,070,871
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $173,601
- Jan 21, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $2,070,871
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