• 
  Elia Kazan

  regizor

• 
  Budd Schulberg

  scenarist

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  Walter Matthau

  Mel Miller
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  Andy Griffith

  Larry Rhodes
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  Patricia Neal

  Marcia Jeffries
• 
  Rip Torn

  Barry Mills
• 
  Kay Medford

  First Mrs. Rhodes
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  Howard Smith

  J.B. Jeffries

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  Percy Waram

  Gen. Haynesworth
• 
  Lee Remick

  Betty Lou Fleckum
• 
  Lois Nettleton

  Mr. Mason's Nurse
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  R.G. Armstrong

  TV Prompter Operator
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  Anthony Franciosa

  Joey DePalma
• 
  Carolyn Craig

  Redheaded filly
• 
  Walter Cartier

• 
  Charles Nelson Reilly
• 
  Marshall Neilan

  Senator Worthington Fuller
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  Big Jeff Bess

  Sheriff Big Jeff Bess
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  Rod Brasfield

  Beanie
• 
  Charles Irving

  Mr. Luffler
• 
  Alexander Kirkland

  Jim Collier
• 
  Paul McGrath

  Macey
• 
  Henry Sharp

  Abe Steiner