Cast
- Howard E. Rollins, Jr. as Capt. Davenport
- Adolph Caesar as Sgt. Waters
- Art Evans as Pvt. Wilkie
- David Alan Grier as Cpl. Cobb
- David Harris as Pvt. Smalls
- Dennis Lipscomb as Capt. Taylor
- Larry Riley as C.J. Memphis
- Robert Townsend as Cpl. Ellis
- Denzel Washington as Pfc. Peterson
- William Allen Young as Pvt. Henson
- John Hancock as Sgt. Washington
- Patti LaBelle as Big Mary
- Trey Wilson as Col. Nivens
- Wings Hauser as Lt. Byrd
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Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
“yet it seems
Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
And there’s but common greenness after that.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Like a bad doctor who has fallen down sick you are cast down, and cannot find what sort of drugs would cure your ailment.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)