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Cadence

Sometimes you've got to stand out to fit in.

Rating 6.7 / 10Release November 16, 1990Runtime 97 min

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.

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