Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
Glenn Ford
as Dr. Michael Corday
Charles Coburn
as Dr. John Corday
Gloria DeHaven
as Fabienne Corday
Janet Leigh
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Bruce Bennett
as Dr. Alfred Norton
Warner Anderson
as Dr. George Esmond
Basil Ruysdael
as Dr. Francis I. Garard
Nancy Reagan
as Mariette Corday
