Movie
Days of Heaven
Overview
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Details
- Release date
- 1978-09-13
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Gere as Bill
- Brooke Adams as Abby
- Sam Shepard as The Farmer
- Linda Manz as Linda
- Robert J. Wilke as The Farm Foreman
- Jackie Shultis as Linda's Friend
- Stuart Margolin as Mill Foreman
- Timothy Scott as Harvest Hand
- Gene Bell as Dancer
- Doug Kershaw as Fiddler
- Richard Libertini as Vaudeville Leader
- Frenchie Lemond as Vaudeville Wrestler
Crew
- Terrence Malick - Director
- Terrence Malick - Writer
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