Movies
March, 1990
Matthew Broderick proves himself too lightweight an actor to carry, in Glory (Tri-Star), a film so top-heavy with noble intentions. Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, both superb, play black soldiers recruited for the 54th Massachusetts regiment in the Civil War, with Cary Elwes very fine as the white second-in-command. But you won't believe for a moment that any of them would follow Broderick's boyish, callow commander into the jaws of death. Based on the true exploits of the first black Arm...
