Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Jim Brown
as Jimmy Price
George Kennedy
as John Little
Fredric March
as Mayor Jeff Parks
Lynn Carlin
as Julia Little
Don Stroud
as Bengy Springer
Janet MacLachlan
as Mary Price
Richard Elkins
as Bradford Wilkes
Clifton James
as D.J. Rankin
Robert Random
as John Braddock
Mills Watson
as Joe Warren
Bernie Casey
as George Harley
Dub Taylor
as Junior