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10 May 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
A Lifetime of Injustice...A Moment of Vengeance.Plot:
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot. A group of old... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy. moreUser Comments:
"There Comes A Day" moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Louis Gossett Jr. | ... | Mathu |
 | Richard Widmark | ... | Sheriff Mapes |
 | Holly Hunter | ... | Candy Marshall |
 | Joe Seneca | ... | Clatoo |
| Will Patton | ... | Lou Dimes |
| Woody Strode | ... | Yank |
| Tiger Haynes | ... | Booker |
| Papa John Creach | ... | Jacob |
| Julius Harris | ... | Coot |
| Rosanna Carter | ... | Beulah |
| Walter Breaux | ... | Charlie |
| Joe 'Flash' Riley | ... | Jameson (as Jay 'Flash' Riley) |
| Danny Barker | ... | Chimley |
| Howard 'Sandman' Sims | ... | Uncle Billy |
| P. Jay Sidney | ... | Gable |
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It's 1987 and there are still parts of the Deep South that haven't quite digested the changes that civil rights have brought. One of them is this bayou parish in Cajun Louisiana where a man who was from a noted white Cajun family was busy running down a black man for sport. Out from a window emerges a shotgun and he's killed.
The woman who leases the property on which most of these black people share crop is Holly Hunter and she means well, but has a patronizing attitude towards 'her' people. The man from whose house the shotgun was fired from his Lou Gossett.
But shotguns leave no forensics and as Gossett's contemporaries gather all with shotguns all recently fired any one of them could have done the deed. And as the movie unfolds they all give rather good motives for the crime.
Sheriff Richard Widmark has to sort it all out and keep at bay an element in the white community that hasn't quite accepted civil rights.
A Gathering of Old Men features a bunch of fine performances by some black actors already qualified for Social Security and Lou Gossett who is made up to look like one. The ending in terms of the crime itself and Widmark's handling of the case might surprise you, but I think it's a just one, given the times.