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.
Cast
Joe Don Baker
Tommy Vanda
Karen Black
Rose Vanda-Buchanan
David Groh
Tony Guidice
Howard Da Silva
Jack Eisenstadt
Tom Atkins
Buck Buchanan
Scott Brady
Armstrong
Victor Jory
Hillman
Brian Keith
Charles Kandell
Suzanne Lederer
Catherine
William Lucking
Sham Murphy
John Quade
Loading Dock Foreman
Joe Santos
Arthur 'Art' Konigsburg
Laraine Stephens
Norma Greer
Paul Stewart
Vince Ianelli
Jo Van Fleet
Mother Vanda
Ralph Bellamy
Ben Frelinghuysen
Red Buttons
Solly Weiss
Jacques Aubuchon
Robins
William Kirby Cullen
Bobby Vanda
Lee Delano
Fred Goff
John Durren
Dan Feldon
Sean Garrison
Tex
Kevin Hagen
Paul Hackett
Brett Halsey
Prosecutor
Victor Holchak
Lonny
Brian Kerwin
Jack Vanda
Lance LeGault
Stevens
Byron Morrow
Harry Bliss
Don Reid
Faraday
Joseph Ruskin
Bill Davis
Walter Barnes
Al Grove
Frederic Downs
Old-Timer
Bess Gatewood
Receptionist
Jean Holloway
Mrs. Goff
David Levy
Carl Biaggi
Bill Adler
Unknown
Johnny Alpaugh
Bobby Vanda at Age 10
Nora Boland
Unknown
William Bronder
Unknown
Jim Haynie
Unknown
Samantha McCoy
Secretary
Read Morgan
Unknown
Michael Mullins
Sean Murphy
Ted White
Unknown
Than Wyenn
Judge
Don Furneaux
Driver
Judie Carroll
Secretary
Tom Regan
Detective #2
Bill Jelliffe
Britt - FBI Man
Andrew Masset
Felton
Tony Ramirez
Sean Murphy at Age 10
George Brenlin
Fred Forster
Crew
Barry Shear
Director
Virgil W. Vogel
Director
Ernest Tidyman
Writer
Jim Benson
Editor
John V. LaBarbera
Editor
Donald Douglas
Editor
Jacques R. Marquette
Director of Photography
David Gerber
Executive Producer
Jay Daniel
Producer
Grady Hunt
Costume Design
Jerrold Immel
Music
Ward Preston
Art Direction
Richard Lawrence
Art Direction