The Washington Post, May 9th, 1987
Murder, racism and the hot, sweaty South generally make for a lurid mix. But writer Charles Fuller seems to know how to orchestrate these potent elements without succumbing to raw sensationalism. Like his prize-winning play and film, "A Soldier's Story," his teleplay for CBS' "A Gathering of Old Men" (tomorrow night at 9 on Channel 9) begins with a killing: A bullying Cajun sharecropper reels from the blast of a 12-gauge shotgun, protruding from the half-cracked door of a tumbledown shanty in the black quarter of Louisiana's Bayonne Parish. You don't find out who pulled the trigger until the e...
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