The story
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.
Cast & crew
Louis Gossett Jr.Daniel Stewart
Lonette McKeeCast
Kathleen YorkAurora Watling
William SchallertJudge Shelton
Beth GrantCast
Scott LawrenceRanse Shipley
Kathryne Dora BrownCamile Stewart
Robert C. Treveiler
Joe Don BakerHorace
Frankie MunizOscarPamela Garmon
Pamela GarmonMrs. SheltonExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- David Shire
- Editor
- Ralph Brunjes
- Director of Photography
- Frank P. Flynn
- Producer
- Patricia Finnegan
- Director
- Bruce Pittman
- Writer
- H. Haden Yelin