"During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist."
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Tom Hayward
Clu Gulager
as Marvin Tayman
Mary Alice
as Minnie Hayward
Barry Brown
as Fred Tayman
Barton Heyman
as George Tayman
James McEachin
as Harris McIntyre
Lonny Chapman
as Sheriff Harvey Johnson
James McEacheon
Helen Martin
as Mrs. Cartwright
John Crawford
as Sgt. Hunt
John Ashton
as 1st State Trooper
Burton Gilliam
as Rev. Farrell
Clebert Ford
as Albert Jackson
Nick Smith
as Factory Worker
Philip Michael Thomas
as Rufus Cartwright
Katherine Pass
as Loretta Tayman
Joe Morton
as Louis
Jerry DeWilde
as Greenspan
Jerry Allison
as Big Ed
Andrew Fradkin
as Burton
Shiela Bailey Lucas
as Registrar
Patricia A. Gill
as Mrs. Hattie Waters
Evelyn Boone
as Marvin Tayman's Secretary
Tommie L. Ray
as Isaac
Robert Harper
as Well-Dressed Man
Sonny Jim Gaines
as Mr. Smith
Jon Ralph Wilson
as James
Royce Clark
as Trooper at Factory
Jerrold Freedman
Writer
Harry R. Sherman
Producer
John F. Link
Editor
Herman F. Zimmerman
Art Direction
Mary Goldberg
Casting
Tak Fujimoto
Director of Photography
Roger Gimbel
Director
Abby Mann
Executive Producer
Fred Karlin
Original Music Composer
Vera Garver
Makeup Artist