Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
Tony Curtis
as Eddie Quaid / Packy Glennon
Pat Crowley
as Julie Walsh
Ernest Borgnine
as Bernie Browne
Paul Kelly
as Jim McBride
Jim Backus
as Pat Quaid
Leigh Snowden
as Lorraine Evans
John Daheim
as Al Gorski
Joe Louis
as Himself
David Janssen
as Jack Lindsay
Carmen McRae
as Singer
John Marley
as Tommy Dillon
Barney Phillips
as Dan Selby
