After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.

Gary Cooper
as Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin

Diane Varsi
as Ann Chapin

Suzy Parker
as Kate Drummond

Geraldine Fitzgerald
as Edith Chapin

Tom Tully
as Mike Slattery

Ray Stricklyn
as Joby Chapin

Philip Ober
as Lloyd Williams

John Emery
as Paul Donaldson

Stuart Whitman
as Charley Bongiorno

Linda Watkins
as Peg Slattery