• 
  Franklin J. Schaffner

  regizor

• 
  Henry Fonda

  William Russell
• 
  Cliff Robertson

  Joe Cantwell
• 
  Colin Kenny

  extra
• 
  Kevin McCarthy

  Dick Jensen
• 
  Shelley Berman

  Sheldon Bascomb
• 
  George Furth

  Tom
• 
  Marie Blake

  Cleaning woman

• 
  Edie Adams

  Mabel Cantwell
• 
  Gene Raymond

  Don Cantwell
• 
  Billy Beck
• 
  John Indrisano

  Mafia Man
• 
  George Kirgo

  Speechwriter
• 
  Gore Vidal

  Delegate
• 
  Ann Sothern

  Sue Ellen Gamadge

• 
  William Henry

  Reporter
• 
  Lee Tracy

  President Art Hockstader
• 
  Penny Singleton

  Mrs. Claypoole
• 
  Margaret Leighton

  Alice Russell
• 
  John Larrabee

  Sue Ellen Gamadge
• 
  Richard Arlen

  Sen. Oscar Anderson
• 
  John Henry Faulk

  Gov. T.T. Claypoole
• 
  Mahalia Jackson

  Mahalia Jackson
• 
  Howard K. Smith

  Howard K. Smith