Storyline
A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder of a violent white farmer to protect the young Black man who actually killed him.
Top Cast
Louis Gossett Jr.
Mathu
Richard Widmark
Sheriff Mapes
Holly Hunter
Candy Marshall
Will Patton
Lou Dimes
Joe Seneca
Clatoo
Woody Strode
Yank
Tiger Haynes
Booker
?
Papa John Creach
Jacob
Julius Harris
Coot
?
Rosanna Carter
Beulah
?
Walter Breaux
Charlie
?
Joe 'Flash' Riley
Jameson
?
Danny Barker
Chimley
?
Sandman Sims
Uncle Billy
?
P. Jay Sidney
Gable
?
Arthur Shilling
Griffin
Lenore Banks
Miss Merle
?
Al Shannon
Luke Will
Stocker Fontelieu
Fix
?
Richard Whaley
Beau
Director
Volker Schlöndorff
Writers
Charles Fuller
Status
Released
