Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

• Orion Pictures
• De Haven Productions
• Gene Hackman
• Barbara Hershey
• Dennis Hopper
• Sheb Wooley
• Fern Persons
• Chelcie Ross
• Robert Swan
• Michael O'Guinne