Death of a Soldier

Year: 1986

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Director: Philippe Mora

HistoryWarCrimeDrama

War's obscenity, murder's brutality, justice's travesty. James Coburn plays a U.S. military lawyer defending a psychotic soldier who confesses to murdering three women to steal their voices. Set amid the WWII U.S.-Australian alliance, the lawyer argues the man is unfit for trial, but the military pushes the case to execution to cement the alliance.

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