Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
Joe Don Baker
as Tommy Vanda
Karen Black
as Rose Vanda-Buchanan
David Groh
as Tony Guidice
Howard Da Silva
as Jack Eisenstadt
Tom Atkins
as Buck Buchanan
Scott Brady
as Armstrong
Victor Jory
as Hillman
Brian Keith
as Charles Kandell
Suzanne Lederer
as Catherine
William Lucking
as Sham Murphy
John Quade
as Loading Dock Foreman
Joe Santos
as Arthur 'Art' Konigsburg
