"In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer."
Richard Gere
as Bill
Brooke Adams
as Abby
Sam Shepard
as The Farmer
Linda Manz
as Linda
Robert J. Wilke
as The Farm Foreman
Jackie Shultis
as Linda's Friend
Stuart Margolin
as Mill Foreman
Timothy Scott
as Harvest Hand
Gene Bell
as Dancer
Doug Kershaw
as Fiddler
Richard Libertini
as Vaudeville Leader
Frenchie Lemond
as Vaudeville Wrestler
Sahbra Markus
as Vaudeville Dancer
Bob Wilson
as Accountant
Muriel Jolliffe
as Headmistress
John Wilkinson
as Preacher
King Cole
as Farm Worker
Terrence Malick
as Mill Worker (uncredited)
Billy Weber
Editor
Writer
Director
James F. Boyle
Gaffer
John Thomas
Special Effects
Joe Watts
Stunts
Erin Talbott
John Bailey
Camera Operator
Edie Baskin
Still Photographer
Haskell Wexler
Additional Photography
Jacob Brackman
Executive Producer
Bert Schneider
Producer
Les Kimber
Production Manager
Mel Merrells
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
Harold Schneider
Jack Fisk
Art Direction
Patricia Norris
Costume Design
Néstor Almendros
Director of Photography
Bertine Taylor
Hairstylist
Jerry R. Allen
Robert Gould
Set Decoration
Dianne Crittenden
Casting
Jamie Brown
Makeup Artist
Rob Lockwood
Second Assistant Director
Skip Cosper
First Assistant Director
John Brumby
Driver
Jered Green
Wardrobe Master
Coulter Adams
Unit Manager
Wallace C. Bennett
Script Supervisor
Don Nablo
Transportation Captain
Martin Walters
Johnny Lattanzio
Painter
Frank Merrells
Dolly Grip
Rod Parkhurst
Alan Levine
Property Master
Malcolm Kendall
Best Boy Grip
Clyde Hart
Key Grip
Bruno Engler
Barry Merrells
Assistant Property Master
Second Unit Director
Robert Eber
Assistant Camera
Allen Byers
Sound Assistant
Philip Boole
Dolby Consultant
Allan Bromberg
Assistant Sound Editor
Richard Garibaldi
Colorist
Michael Galloway
Sound Recordist
Don MacDougall
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Other
Terry Bolo
Casting Assistant
Dessie Markovsky
Editorial Consultant
Joe Wachter
Clyde McKinney
Marilyn Tasso
Production Secretary
Glen Lambert
Boom Operator
Jean Marler
Geno Havens
Bob McMillian
Color Assistant
Barbara Morrison
Negative Cutter
Enrico DeMelis
Music Coordinator
Lewis Hine
Judith Lamb
Caroline Biggerstaff
Additional Editor
Robert Burton
Chansonetta Emmons
Louis Hogue
William Notman
Daniel Allan Carlin
Music Editor
Sandro Fois
Score Engineer
Stephen Katz
Andrew D. Wilson
Electrician
Karen Rea
Elinor Renfield
Susan Martin
Jeffrey Schneider
George Trirogoff
Assistant Editor
Denny Bruce
Peter Gregory
Colin C. Mouat
Sound Effects Editor
Kent Remington
Eric Van Haren Noman
Rick Smith
Musician
Jim Cox
Special Sound Effects
Marion Segal
John Iles
Sergio Marcotulli
Nathalie Seaver
Researcher
Barry Thomas
Sound Mixer
Ken Middleham
Conductor
Alan Splet
Henry Hamilton Bennett
Roberta Friedman
Tikki Goldberg
Susan Vermazen
John T. Reitz
Sound Effects
George Ronconi
Barbara Claman
Gabriella Belloni
Ted Roberts
Reg Glass
Animal Wrangler
Robert Thirlwell
Paul Ryan
Second Unit Director of Photography
Robert W. Glass Jr.
Scoring Mixer
Leo Kottke
Additional Music
Charles L. Campbell
Sharron Miller
Sound Editor
Dan Perri
Title Designer