Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Tony Curtis
as Eddie Quaid / Packy Glennon

Pat Crowley
as Julie Walsh

Ernest Borgnine
as Bernie Browne

Paul Kelly
as Jim McBride

Jim Backus
as Pat Quaid

Leigh Snowden
as Lorraine Evans

John Daheim
as Al Gorski

Joe Louis
as Himself

David Janssen
as Jack Lindsay

Carmen McRae
as Singer