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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.
Theatrical
May 30, 1979
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Studio
Roger Gimbel Productions, Abby Mann Productions, EMI Television
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Cast
Full credits →L
Louis Gossett Jr.
Tom Hayward
C
Clu Gulager
Marvin Tayman
M
Mary Alice
Minnie Hayward
B
Barry Brown
Fred Tayman
B
Barton Heyman
George Tayman
J
James McEachin
Harris McIntyre
L
Lonny Chapman
Sheriff Harvey Johnson
H
Helen Martin
Mrs. Cartwright
J
John Crawford
Sgt. Hunt
J
John Ashton
1st State Trooper
B
Burton Gilliam
Rev. Farrell
C
Clebert Ford
Albert Jackson
P
Philip Michael Thomas
Rufus Cartwright
K
Katherine Pass
Loretta Tayman
J
Joe Morton
Louis
J
Jerry DeWilde
Greenspan
J
Jerry Allison
Big Ed
R
Robert Harper
Well-Dressed Man
S
Sonny Jim Gaines
Mr. Smith
R
Royce Clark
Trooper at Factory
