Raggedy Man
Directed by	Jack Fisk
Produced by	Terry Nelson Burt Weissbourd William D. Wittliff
Written by	William D. Wittliff
Starring	Sissy Spacek Eric Roberts Sam Shepard
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	Ralf Bode
Editing by	Edward Warschilka
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	94 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English

Raggedy Man is a 1981 film starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek. It was filmed in Lockhart, Texas.

The story is about people in the small Texas town of Gregory during World War II.

Plot Sissy Spacek plays a divorced mother of two who tries to go it alone in mid-1940s Texas. Shunned by the "respectable" townsfolk because of her marital breakup, Spacek must endure the unwanted attentions of every low-life man in the community. Enter Eric Roberts, a young sailor who becomes both friend and protector to Spacek and her sons. Once Roberts is called to active duty, however, Spacek is supposedly left at the mercy of the menacing "raggedy man"-a scuzzy ragpicker, played by Sam Shepard, whose intentions aren't what they seem.

Contents 1 Additional cast members 2 Novel 3 Other uses 4 External links

[edit] Additional cast members

• R.G. Armstrong
• Eric Roberts
• William Sanderson
• Henry Thomas
• Tracey Walter

[edit] Novel

Raggedy Man is the title of a novel by William D. Wittliff and Sara Clark, published in 1979, on which the movie of the same title is based.

[edit] Other uses

The Raggedy Man is also the name of a poem written in 1890 by James Whitcomb Riley. (See Wikisource article.)

Tina Turner also referred to Mel Gibson's Mad Max as Raggedy Man in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

[edit] External links

• Raggedy Man at the Internet Movie Database
• Raggedy Man at Allmovie

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