Children of the Dust
26/02/1995
Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.
TV Show Information
Sidney Poitier
as Gypsy Smith
Michael Moriarty
as John Maxwell
Farrah Fawcett
as Nora Maxwell
Katharine Isabelle
as Young Rachel
Joanna Going
as Rachel
Billy Wirth
as Corby/White Wolf
Regina Taylor
as Drusilla
Robert Guillaume
as Mossburger
Jim Caviezel
as Dexter
John Pyper-Ferguson
as Sonny Boy
Grace Zabriskie
as Rose
Byron Chief-Moon
as Chief Walks-The-Clouds
Shirley Knight
as Aunt Bertha
Basil Wallace
as Fulton
Kevin McNulty
as Sheriff Harriman
Mitchell LaPlante
as Young Corby
Zachary Savard
as Young Dexter
Jesse Lipscombe
as Clarence
Lindsey Campbell
as Miranda
Brent Stait
as Ballenger
Charles Andre
as Nez
Eric Keenleyside
as Boss Beeson
Tom Schanley
as Cavalry Office
Brian Jensen
as Lieutenant
Dale Wilson
as Renfro
Michael Elias
as Reporter
Crystal Verge
as Mrs. Tibbens
Donna Belleville
as Mrs. Clarksdale
Michelle Thrush
as Rainbow Woman
Edward C. K. Richardson III
as Charlie
Joshua Myers
as Rachel's Child
Hart Bochner
as Shelby Hornbeck
Jack Ackroyd
as Farmer Tully
Wilma Pelly
as Nita
