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Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Cast

Jim Brown

as Jimmy Price

George Kennedy

as John Little

Fredric March

as Mayor Jeff Parks

Lynn Carlin

as Julia Little

Don Stroud

as Bengy Springer

Janet MacLachlan

as Mary Price

Richard Elkins

as Bradford Wilkes

Clifton James

as D.J. Rankin

Robert Random

as John Braddock

Mills Watson

as Joe Warren

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