
94 minutes
9/13/1978
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)