Cast
- Austin Stoker as Ethan Bishop
- Darwin Joston as Napoleon Wilson
- Laurie Zimmer as Leigh. According to Carpenter, Zimmer "hated herself" after seeing her performance in the dailies while he thought she did a great job.
- Martin West as Lawson
- Tony Burton as Wells
- Charles Cyphers as Starker
- Nancy Kyes as Julie
- Henry Brandon as Chaney
- Kim Richards as Kathy Lawson
- Peter Bruni as Ice Cream Man
- John J. Fox as Warden
- Frank Doubleday as White Warlord. Doubleday said to director Carpenter during the shoot: "Usually I play a man with a gun. This time I'm going to play a man who is a gun."
- Marc Ross as Patrolman Tramer
- Alan Koss as Patrolman Baxter
- John Carpenter as Gang member
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“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
“... stars that marked
those in whose faces
you had not
looked. ‘They were cast out
as if they were
some animals, some beasts.’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“yet it seems
Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
And there’s but common greenness after that.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)