A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Henry Fonda
as Meredith
Joanne Woodward
as Mary
Jason Robards
as Henry Drummond
Paul Ford
as C.P. Ballinger
Charles Bickford
as Benson Tropp
Burgess Meredith
as Doc Scully
Kevin McCarthy
as Otto Habershaw
Robert Middleton
as Dennis Wilcox
John Qualen
as Jesse Buford
Jean-Michel Michenaud
as Jackie
James Berwick
as Sam Rhine
Allen Collins
as Toby