Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his old flame Leslie, gets a job as an insurance salesman and begins to heal from the emotional damage caused by the war. But Jerry faces a serious moral dilemma when the job he depends on for his livelihood leads him to take advantage of an elderly African-American woman and the members of her community.
Allan Gurganus | Novel |
Joyce Eliason | Screenplay |
Mark Snow | Music |
Rohn Schmidt | Director of Photography |
David Siegel | Editor |
Susan Bluestein | Casting |
Norm Baron | Production Design |
Ward Preston | Art Direction |
Joseph Litsch | Set Decoration |
Yvonne Blake | Costume Design |