A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
Bette Davis
as Estelle Malone
Ernest Harden Jr.
as B.T. Williamson
Eileen Heckart
as Three Bag Lady
Virginia Capers
as Gorilla Sydney
Anne Ramsey
as Heavy Charm
Lurene Tuttle
as Mrs. McIntyre
Tony Burton
as Black Fighter
Peg Shirley
as Judge Alice Quentin
Ernie Hudson
as Counsellor
Dan Mason
as Father Gannon
Vincent Schiavelli
as Medic
Cheryl Harvey
as Probation Woman
