"A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked."
Dick Anthony Williams
as Samuel Taylor
James Broderick
as Luke Rankovich
Carol Kane
as Lavinia
Rosalind Cash
as Anne Traylor
Alice Beardsley
as Melva
Danny Glover
as Lester Traylor
Scotty Greene
as Teddy
Carl Lee
as Davis
Gary Lee Love
as Reporter
Marcia Rodd
as Mary Goodwin
Wallace Wilkinson
as Doctor
William Traylor
as Peter Jefferson
Carl Spurlock
as Jeff Stearns
Sloane Shelton
as Virginia
Wallace Merck
as Repossess Man
Jeffrey DeMunn
Frances Conroy
as Sally
Guy Boyd
as Gaynor
Trazana Beverley
as Mavis Jackson
Jarrett Ellis Beal
as Nathaniel Traylor
Leslie Lee
as Narrator (voice)
Lora Hays
Editor
Barbara Kopple
Executive Producer
Charles Morrow
Music
Coral Hawthorne
Producer
Larry Pizer
Director of Photography
Shirley Fulton Crumley
Location Casting
Director
Horton Foote
Writer