• 
  Martin Ritt

  regizor

• 
  Robert Alan Aurthur

  scenarist

• 
  John Cassavetes

  Axel Nordmann
• 
  Sidney Poitier

  Tommy Tyler
• 
  Jack Warden

  Charles Malik
• 
  Roy Glenn

  Stevedore
• 
  Robert F. Simon

  Mr. George Nordmann
• 
  Estelle Hemsley

  Lucy's Mother

• 
  Ruth White

  Mrs. Nordmann
• 
  Ruby Dee

  Lucy Tyler
• 
  Val Avery

  Brother
• 
  David Clarke

  Wallace (as David Clark)
• 
  John Kellogg

  Detective
• 
  William A. Lee

  Davis
• 
  Kathleen Maguire

  Ellen Wilson