A Gathering of Old Men

A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder of a violent white farmer to protect the young Black man who actually killed him.

• Volker SchlöndorffDirector
• Charles FullerScreenplay

• Louis Gossett Jr.Mathu
• Richard WidmarkSheriff Mapes
• Holly HunterCandy Marshall
• Will PattonLou Dimes
• Joe SenecaClatoo
• Woody StrodeYank
• Tiger HaynesBooker
• Papa John CreachJacob
• Julius HarrisCoot
• Rosanna CarterBeulah
• Walter BreauxCharlie
• Joe 'Flash' RileyJameson