Cadence is a 1990 film directed by Martin Sheen, in which Charlie Sheen plays an inmate in a United States Army stockade in West Germany during the 1960s. Sheen plays alongside his father Martin Sheen and brother Ramon Estevez. The film is based on a novel by Gordon Weaver. Pfc. Franklin Bean gets drunk and goes AWOL upon the death of his father. As punishment, he is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of giving into racism, Bean joins forces with his fellow inmates and rises up against the bigoted prison warden, MSgt. Otis McKinney .
| Release date: | 1990 |
| Directed by: | Martin Sheen |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Editor: | Martin Hunter |
| Music by: | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography: | Richard Leiterman |
| Screenplay by: | Dennis Shryack |
| Adapted from: | Count a lonely cadence |