Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Burt Lancaster
as Mike Rettig

Deborah Kerr
as Elizabeth Brandon

Gene Hackman
as Joe Browdy

Scott Wilson
as Malcolm Webson

Sheree North
as Waitress

Bonnie Bedelia
as Annie Burke

William Windom
as John Brandon

Carl Reindel
as Pilot

Ford Rainey
as Stand Owner

John Napier
as Dick Donford