Richard Burton as Breck Stancill

Lee Marvin as Sheriff Track Bascomb

Cameron Mitchell as Butt Cutt Cates

Lola Falana as Loretta Sykes

Linda Evans as Nancy Poteet

Luciana Paluzzi as Trixie

O. J. Simpson as Garth

David Huddleston as Mayor Hardy Riddle

Jeannie Bell as Mary Anne

Hoke Howell as Bobby Poteet

Ed Call as Shaneyfelt

John Alderson as Vernon Hodo

John Pearce as Taggart

David Ladd as Flagg

Vic Perrin as Hector

Spence Wil-Dee as Willy Washington

Wendell Wellman as Alan Bascomb

Virgil Frye as Johnson

Robert Porter as Rev. Josh Franklin

Lee de Broux as Rev. Alverson

Charlie Briggs as A.P. Reporter

Morgan Upton as N.Y. Times Reporter

Eve Christopher as Mrs. Martha Shaneyfelt

Gary L. Catus as Charles Peck

Jo Ann Cowell as Annie

Scott Edmund Lane as Jim Hodo

Larry E Wiliams as Lightning Rod

Bert Williams as Doctor

Susan Brown as Maybelle Bascomb

Roebuck 'Pops' Staples as The Staple Singers

Cleotha Staples as The Staple Singers

Mavis Staples as The Staple Singers

Yvonne Staples as The Staple Singers