"In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family."
Robert Ryan
as Ty Ty Walden
Jack Lord
as Buck Walden
Tina Louise
as Griselda Walden, Ty Ty's daughter-in-law
Aldo Ray
as Bill Thompson
Buddy Hackett
as Pluto Swint, Sheriff Candidate
Fay Spain
as Darlin' Jill
Vic Morrow
as Shaw Walden
Helen Westcott
as Rosamund
Lance Fuller
as Jim Leslie
Rex Ingram
as Uncle Felix
Michael Landon
as Dave Dawson
Russell Collins
as Watchman
Davis Roberts
as Farm Hand with Hoe
Janet Brandt
as Irate Woman
Anthony Mann
Director
Erskine Caldwell
Novel
Philip Yordan
Screenplay
Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
Elmer Bernstein
Original Music Composer
Sidney Harmon
Producer
Richard C. Meyer
Editor
Jack Poplin
Production Design
Henry Adams
Sound Editor
Robert Tracy
Music Editor
Lloyd Garnell
Lighting Technician