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Many newcomers or obscure actors were cast for the film.

Jason Robards and John Cullum were the best-known actors in the production.

Bibi Besch was a relative unknown, recently thrust into the spotlight as Dr. Carol Marcus in Meyer's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Steve Guttenberg, who went on to considerable success, was at the time known for the 1982 Barry Levinson comedy Diner.

Stephen Furst was known primarily as Flounder in National Lampoon's Animal House.

George Petrie, a stock player on several incarnations of Jackie Gleason's television series and the Ewing family lawyer in Dallas, had a small role as a doctor.

Cullum and Besch later played Holling Vincoeur and Maggie O ' Connell's mother on Northern Exposure.