Kirk Douglas and Craig T. Nelson trade scene-stealing moments as a dying patriarch and his estranged son on an adventurous cross-country trek. Connie: Bess Armstrong. Sada: Eileen Brennan. Sylvia: Bonnie Bartlett. Cal: Ernest Thompson, who wrote the teleplay. Russ: Richard Gilliland. Nell: Lee Garlington. Gloria: Nancy McLoughlin. Based on Lamar Herrin's novel, "The Lies Boys Tell." Tom McLoughlin directed.