From a story by Ralph Wheelwright. Originally produced as motion picture in 1956. Includes trailer. James Cagney (Steve Bradford); Barbara Stanwyck (Ann Dempster); Walter Pidgeon (James Rayburn); Betty Lou Keim (Suzie); Don Dubbins (Mark); Edward Andrews (Mr. Spottsford); Basil Ruysdael (judge); Grandon Rhodes (Roy Oliphant); Will Wright (old cab driver); Lewis Martin (Dr. Miller); Dorothy Adams (Aunt Martha); Dean Jones (hardware clerk); Herb Vigran (traffic cop); Michael Landon (boy in poolhall); Tom Laughlin (football player).
Summary:
"A story of a man's search for the illegitimate son he had abandoned 20 years previously. ... After 20 years, Cagney, now a selfmade big wheel in steel, casts off business affairs to look for the son he had denied when young. The search brings him to Miss Stanwyck's [adoption home] and what looks like a blind alley when she refuses to disclose the adopting parents. While she fights him successfully in court, the association with her and her charges, particularly Miss Keim [playing a teenager awaiting the birth of a child], plus a meeting with his son now on the very edge of manhood, convinces Cagney of the futility of trying to intrude"--Variety review, July 25, 1956.
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