A Matter of Sex

Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.

Cast

Jean Stapleton

as Irene Wallin

Dinah Manoff

as Glennis Rasmussen

Judge Reinhold

as Tobe Rasmussen

Nancy Beatty

as Sandi Treml

J. Winston Carroll

as Ray Artisan

Peter Dvorsky

as John Mack

Jeannie Elias

as Shirley Solyntjes

Gillian Farrell

as Sylvia Erickson

Tom Harvey

as Vern Dimmick

Mary Pirie

as Donna Fern

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