
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.

as Pfc. Franklin Fairchild Bean

as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney

as Roosevelt Stokes

as Eugene 'Spoonman' Bryce

as Edward James Webb

as Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane

as Cpl. Harold Lamar

as Cpl. Gerald Gessner

as Bartender

as Bean Sr.

as Principal

as Mrs. Vito

as Lawrence

as Psych. Ward M.P. #1

as Psych. Ward M.P. #2

as Capt. Ramon Garcia

as Haig