Heavens Fall

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.

Crime Drama

Timothy Hutton

(Samuel Leibowitz)

David Strathairn

(Judge James Horton)

Leelee Sobieski

(Victoria Price)

Anthony Mackie

(William Lee)

Bill Sage

(Thomas Knight, Jr.)

Azura Skye

(Ruby Bates)

James Tolkan

(Thomas Knight, Sr.)

Bill Smitrovich

(George Chamlee)

Maury Chaykin

(Lyle Harris)

Joseph Lyle Taylor

(Joseph Brodsky)

B.J. Britt

(Haywood Patterson)

Lew Temple

(Wade Wright)

Francie Swift

(Belle Leibowitz)

Ian Nelson

(Lester Carter)

Will Owens

(E.L. Lewis)

Artel Great

(Willie Roberson)

Ty Jones

(William Patterson)

Afemo Omilami

(Leonard George)

Tom Groenwald

(Harry Wolkoff)

John Campion

(H.G. Bailey)

Stephanie Sawyer

(Elizabeth)

Henry Brown

(Earl Higgins)

David Briggs

(Calvin Bennet)

Bennett Wayne Dean Sr.

(Dr. Bridges (as Wayne Dean))

George Mills

(Ora Dobbins)

Elijah Kelley

(Leroy Wright)

Robert W. Evans

(Orville Gilley (as Rob Evans))

Tom Seiler

(Newsman)

Gary Russell

(Sam Leibowitz's Assistant)

Jeff Cole

(Dr. Lynch)

Elayn J. Taylor

(Mrs. Patterson)

Robert Collier

(Stephen R. Roddy)

Sarah Stevens

(Sally)

Hollywood Heard

(Sheriff)

Courtney Blythe Turk

(Young Daughter)

Darryl Reeves

(Charlie (uncredited))

Mike Pniewski

(Deputy (uncredited))

Larnell Stovall

(Clarence Norris (uncredited))