Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.
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Ross McElwee as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brian Baucom as
Susan Bennett as
Ed Bivens as
R. Bullock as
Jack Clayton as
Mary Clayton as
Marian Fitz-Simmons as
Alan Gurganus as
Steve Herman as
Robbie Lane Jackson as
Elizabeth King as
Mack Lackey as
Paula Larke as
Jim Lewis as
James MacDougal as
Emily Madison as
Matti McClain as
Adrian McElwee as
John McElwee as
Tom McElwee as
Jamie McPhail as
Howard McPherson as
Kathleen Money as
Patricia Neal as
Jamie Newnam as
Vlada Petrić as
Jack Rhodes as
William E. Smith as
Sherwood Stewart as
Dooley Strange as
Charleen Swansea as
Kerry Walter as
Ashzi Welborn as
David Williamson as
Kitty Fisher as
Gary Cooper as (archive footage)
Marilyn Levine as
Ross McElwee Jr. as
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