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Sergeant Rutledge : Miss Beecher Finds the Body

Miss Beecher (Constance Towers) offers her testimony to the court about what happened the night she encountered Sergeant Rutledge (Woody Strode).

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backlighting, beat, event, chiaroscuro, close-up, flashback, full shot, hard lighting, high angle, long shot, low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium shot, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, shot/reverse shot, sound advance, source lighting, tracking shot, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American, White: White American

"Miss Beecher Finds the Body" in Sergeant Rutledge. Directed by John Ford, John Ford Productions, 1960, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2666

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Edwin Cruz-Castillo

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