Days of Heaven

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Cast

Richard Gere

as Bill

Brooke Adams

as Abby

Sam Shepard

as The Farmer

Linda Manz

as Linda

Robert J. Wilke

as The Farm Foreman

Jackie Shultis

as Linda's Friend

Stuart Margolin

as Mill Foreman

Timothy Scott

as Harvest Hand

Gene Bell

as Dancer

Doug Kershaw

as Fiddler

Reviews

MoHA

Following the story of Bill (Richard Gere), a hard working laborer in the early 19th century, Days Of Heaven is a cinematic masterpiece. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Abby (Brooke Adams) and sister (Linda Manz), Bill departs on a steam engine for a lone wheat farm in Texas for work. The journey is ...

talisencrw

Outstanding. My second favourite Malick film next to Badlands. I'm not sure anyone has ever been better at photographing fire. The only other of his films I have seen thus far is 'To the Wonder', but it's films like this that make me such a lover of cinema. I'm not a Richard Gere fan in the slightes...

CinemaSerf

I wasn't ever really a fan of Richard Gere. Maybe it was just all that hair? Anyway, in this rather poignant story he is "Bill" who works in a smelter in Chicago whilst living with "Amy" (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister "Linda" (Linda Manz). He's not happy, and after the latest in a series of l...

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