A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Frank Sinatra
as Dave Hirsh
Dean Martin
as Bama Dillert
Shirley MacLaine
as Ginnie Moorehead
Martha Hyer
as Gwen French
Arthur Kennedy
as Frank Hirsh
Nancy Gates
as Edith Barclay
Leora Dana
as Agnes Hirsh
Betty Lou Keim
as Dawn Hirsh
Larry Gates
as Professor Robert Haven French
Steve Peck
as Raymond Lanchak
Connie Gilchrist
as Jane Barclay
Ned Wever
as Smitty
