Hard Traveling (1986)
1h 39m
Running Time
January 20, 1986Release Date
Plot.
Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer as a widow who begins a romance with an uneducated janitor (J.E. Freeman) who is later accused of murder.
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Cast & Crew.

Ellen Geer
Norah Sloan

J.E. Freeman
Ed Sloan

Bill Ackridge
Earl Horton

Al Blair
Jim Baldwin

Barry Corbin
Frank Burton

James Gammon
Sgt. Slattery

Jim Haynie
Lt. Fisher

Charles Martinet
District Attorney Cobb

Elizabeth Holmes
Aunt Alice

Dan Bessie
Director / Screenplay

Alvah Bessie
Novel

Helen Garvy
Producer / Assistant Director

Ernie Sheldon
Original Music Composer

David Myers
Director of Photography

Kevin Constant
Art Direction

Susan Heick
Editor

Karen Mitchell
Costume Design

Ellen Lent
Production Manager
Details.
Wiki.
Hard Traveling is a 1986 American drama film written and directed by Dan Bessie and starring J. E. Freeman, Ellen Geer and Barry Corbin. It is based on the 1941 novel Bread and a Stone by Alvah Bessie, the father of Dan Bessie.