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  Martin Ritt

  regizor

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  Dalene Young

  scenarist

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  Mary Steenburgen

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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  Malcolm McDowell

  Max Perkins
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  Rip Torn

  Marsh Turner
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  Peter Coyote

  Norton Baskin
• 
  Dana Hill

  Ellie Turner
• 
  Alfre Woodard

  Geechee

• 
  Jay O. Sanders

  Charles Rawlings
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  Ike Eisenmann

  Paul
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  Cary Guffey

  Floyd Turner
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  Joanna Miles

  Mrs. Turner
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  Tommy Alford

  Postal Clerk
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  Norton Baskin

  Man in the Rocking Chair
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  Terrence Gehr

  Store Keeper

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  John Hammond

  Tim
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  Toni Hudson

  Tim's Wife
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  Bo Rucker

  Leroy