The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Tyrone Power
as Martin Maher
Maureen O'Hara
as Mary O'Donnell
Robert Francis
as James Sundstrom Jr.
Donald Crisp
as Old Martin
Ward Bond
as Captain Herman Kohler
Betsy Palmer
as Kitty Carter
Philip Carey
as Chuck Dotson
William Leslie
as James "Red" Sundstrom
Harry Carey, Jr.
as Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patrick Wayne
as Abner "Cherub" Overton
Sean McClory
as Dinny Maher
Peter Graves
as Corporal Rudolph Heinz
