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