Glory is a 1989 American war film directed by Edward Zwick. The screenplay was written by Kevin Jarre, based on the personal letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the novel One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard and Lay This Laurel and Lincoln Kirstein's compilation of photos of the monument to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Boston Common.
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, including Denzel Washington for Best Supporting Actor. It won many other awards, including from the British Academy, the Golden Globe Awards, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Political Film Society, the NAACP, among others. The film was co-produced by TriStar Pictures and Freddie Fields Productions, and distributed by Tri-Star Pictures in the United States. It premiered in limited release in the U.S. on December 14, 1989, and in wide release on February 16, 1990.
The film stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The film features: Jihmi Kennedy, Andre Braugher, Cliff DeYoung, Alan North, Peter Michael Goetz, Bob Gunton, Jay O. Sanders.
Starring
- Matthew Broderick - Robert Gould Shaw
- Denzel Washington - Trip
- Cary Elwes - Cabot Forbes
- and Morgan Freeman - Rawlins
Featuring
- Jihmi Kennedy - Sharts
- Andre Braugher - Searles
- Cliff DeYoung - Colonel Montgomery
- Alan North - Governor Andrew
- Peter Michael Goetz - Francis Shaw
- Bob Gunton - General Harker
- Jay O. Sanders - General Strong
Cast
- Mulcahy - John Finn
- Morse - Donovan Leitch
- Russell - John David Cullum
- Pierce - Christian Baskous
- Mute Drummer Boy - RonReaco Lee
- Quartermaster - Richard Riehle
- "A" Company Officer - Daniel Jenkins
- "A" Company Soldiers - Michael Smith Guess, Abdul Salaam El Razzac
- Surgeon - Pete Munro
- Young Soldier - Benji Wilhoite
- Hospital Steward - Ethan Phillips
- Bigoted Soldier - Mark A. Levy
- Paymaster - Randell Haynes
- Tall Contraband - Afemo Omilami
- Short Contraband - Keith Noble
- Minister - Dan Biggers
- Dr. Rogers - Marc Gowan
- Dr. Thorpe - Raymond Godshall, Jr.
- Contraband Soldier - Bob Minor
- White Woman - Joan Riordan
- Black Woman - Saundra Franks
- 54th Soldier - Mark A. Jones
- 10th Conn. Soldiers - Peter Grandfield, Mark Margolis, Paul Desmond, Tom Barrington, Michael Fowler, Richard Wright
Uncredited
- Jane Alexander - Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw
- Raymond St. Jacques - Frederick Douglass