• 
  Sam Peckinpah

  regizor

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  Bill L. Norton

  scenarist

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  Kris Kristofferson

  Rubber Duck
• 
  Ali MacGraw

  Melissa
• 
  Brian Davies

  Chuck Arnoldi
• 
  Burt Young

  Pig Pen/Love Machine
• 
  Sam Peckinpah

  News crew director
• 
  Pepi Lenzi

  News Crewman

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  Whitey Hughes

  White Rat
• 
  Ernest Borgnine

  Sheriff Lyle Wallace aka Cottonmouth
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  Allen Keller

  Rosewell
• 
  Cassie Yates

  Violet
• 
  Seymour Cassel

  Governer Jerry Haskins
• 
  Franklyn Ajaye

  Spider Mike
• 
  Bill Coontz

  Old Iguana (as Bill Foster)

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  Tommy J. Huff

  Lizard Tongue (as Thomas Huff)
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  Jackson D. Kane

  Big Nasty (as J.D. Kane)
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  Walter Kelley

  Federal Agent Hamilton
• 
  Madge Sinclair

  Widow Woman
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  Billy Hughes

  Pack Rat (as Billy E. Hughes)