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Death of a Soldier

Release Date:May 16, 1986

Running Time:93 min

Genres:Drama, History, Crime, War

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Cast

James Coburn Bill Hunter Reb Brown Maurie Fields Max Fairchild Belinda Davey Randall Berger Michael Pate Jon Sidney Nell Johnson Pippa Wilson Kim Rushworth

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.

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