
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.

as Samuel Leibowitz

as Judge James Horton

as Victoria Price

as William Lee

as Thomas Knight, Jr.

as Ruby Bates

as Thomas Knight, Sr.

as George Chamlee

as Lyle Harris

as Joseph Brodsky

as Haywood Patterson

as Wade Wright

as Belle Leibowitz

as Lester Carter

as E.L. Lewis

as Willie Roberson

as William Patterson

as Leonard George

as Harry Wolkoff

as H.G. Bailey

as Elizabeth

as Earl Higgins

as Calvin Bennet

as Dr. Bridges (as Wayne Dean)

as Ora Dobbins

as Leroy Wright

as Orville Gilley (as Rob Evans)

as Newsman

as Sam Leibowitz's Assistant

as Dr. Lynch

as Mrs. Patterson

as Stephen R. Roddy

as Sally

as Sheriff

as Young Daughter

as Charlie (uncredited)

as Deputy (uncredited)

as Clarence Norris (uncredited)