Cockfighter
"From Governor's Mansions to Cheap Hotels: The Big Money Sport that's Dirty-Violent and Outside the Law!"
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
Cast
Warren Oates
Frank Mansfield
Richard B. Shull
Omar Baradansky
Harry Dean Stanton
Jack Burke
Ed Begley Jr.
Tom Peeples
Laurie Bird
Dody White Burke
Troy Donahue
Randall Mansfield
Warren Finnerty
Sanders
Robert Earl Jones
Buford
Patricia Pearcy
Mary Elizabeth
Millie Perkins
Frances Mansfield
Steve Railsback
Junior
Tom Spratley
Mister Peeples
Charles Willeford
Ed Middleton
Pete Munro
Packard
Kermit Echols
Fred Reed
Ed Smith
Whipple
Jimmy Williams
Buddy Waggoner
John Trotter
Hansen
Lois Zeitlin
Lucille
Joe Bentley
Peach Owen
A.B. Greeson
Pete Chocolate
Bob Hannah
Deputy sheriff
Sara Rickman
Martha Middleton
Meg Brush
Mary Elizabeth's mother
Donnie Fritts
Gangleader - old man mask
Bobby Dunn
Gambler
Kim Bernard
Gambler
Ank Carleton
Captain Mack
Billy Abbott
Referee
Dickey Betts
Cigarette mask (uncredited)
Steven Gaydos
Nixon mask (uncredited)
Oliver Coleman
Senator Foxhall
Crew
Charles Willeford
Novel
Monte Hellman
Director
Charles Willeford
Screenplay
Ed Turney
Props
Kendrick Sweet
Sound Effects
Pat Mann
Art Direction
Don Phillips
Casting
Richard Bryce Goodman
Boom Operator
Laurie Bird
Still Photographer
Peter Cornberg
Production Manager
Lee Alexander
Sound Mixer
Michael Chinich
Casting
Monte Hellman
Editor
Samuel W. Gelfman
Co-Producer
Charles L. Hughes
Art Direction
Roger Corman
Producer
Lewis Teague
Editor
Don Walters
First Assistant Director
Michael Franks
Original Music Composer
Néstor Almendros
Director of Photography