Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.

Joe Don Baker
as Tommy Vanda

Karen Black
as Rose Vanda-Buchanan

David Groh
as Tony Guidice

Howard Da Silva
as Jack Eisenstadt

Tom Atkins
as Buck Buchanan

Scott Brady
as Armstrong

Victor Jory
as Hillman

Brian Keith
as Charles Kandell

Suzanne Lederer
as Catherine

William Lucking
as Sham Murphy