Days of Heaven

Bill

Abby

The Farmer

Linda

The Farm Foreman (as Robert Wilke)

Linda's Friend

Mill Foreman

Harvest Hand (as Tim Scott)

Dancer

Fiddler

Vaudeville Leader

Vaudeville Wrestler

Vaudeville Dancer

Accountant

Headmistress

Preacher

Farm Worker

After filming for a short time, Terrence Malick threw out the script altogether and filmed for a close to a year allowing the actors to "find the story" for the film as they went along.

After a year of editing, Terrence Malick called Sam Shepard to Los Angeles to shoot inserts. Close-ups of the actor shot under a freeway overpass were cut into the final film.

The plot also appears closely related to the Henry James novel "The Wings of the Dove", with genders reversed.

The Texas flag is displayed upside down.

Just after the opening of the film at the steel mill, we see a freight train going across a high trestle in silhouette, with the roofs of the cars perfectly empty, but immediately we get a closeup of the train's roofs, looking forward, and it has scores of migrant workers sitting and sprawled on the roofs of the cars.

The two WWI aircraft in the film had their first flights in December 1916 (the Sopwith) and July 1917 (the Fokker Triplane) so it's highly doubtful that either one was flying in Texas in 1916-17, when the story takes place.

Bill: You know what I thought when I first saw you?

The Farmer: I think I love you.

Linda: This farmer, he had a big spread, and a lot of money. Whoever was sitting in a chair when he'd come around, why they'd stand up and give it to him.