Huddie Ledbetter
Roger E. Mosley
Wes Ledbetter
Paul Benjamin
Sheriff Gibbons
William Wintersole
Lethe
Rhetta Greene
Miss Eula
Madge Sinclair
Prison Chief Guard
Alan Manson
Dicklicker
Albert Hall
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Art Evans
John Lomax
James Brodhead
Gov. Pat Neff
John Henry Faulk
Sally Ledbetter
Lynn Hamilton
Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)
Ernie Hudson
Producer
David Frost
Director
Gordon Parks
Director of Photography
Bruce Surtees
Original Music Composer
Fred Karlin
Editor
Moe Howard
Production Design
Robert F. Boyle
Marc Merson
Writer
Ernest Kinoy
Thomas Penick
Set Decoration
John A. Kuri