
14/01/1980
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

John Quade
as Loading Dock Foreman

Joe Santos
as Arthur 'Art' Konigsburg

Laraine Stephens
as Norma Greer

Paul Stewart
as Vince Ianelli

Jo Van Fleet
as Mother Vanda

Ralph Bellamy
as Ben Frelinghuysen

Red Buttons
as Solly Weiss

Jacques Aubuchon
as Robins

William Kirby Cullen
as Bobby Vanda

Lee Delano
as Fred Goff

John Durren
as Dan Feldon

Sean Garrison
as Tex

Kevin Hagen
as Paul Hackett

Brett Halsey
as Prosecutor

Victor Holchak
as Lonny

Brian Kerwin
as Jack Vanda

Lance LeGault
as Stevens

Byron Morrow
as Harry Bliss

Don Reid
as Faraday

Joseph Ruskin
as Bill Davis

Walter Barnes
as Al Grove

Frederic Downs
as Old-Timer

Bess Gatewood
as Receptionist

Jean Holloway
as Mrs. Goff

David Levy
as Carl Biaggi

Bill Adler
as

Johnny Alpaugh
as Bobby Vanda at Age 10

Nora Boland
as

William Bronder
as

Jim Haynie
as

Samantha McCoy
as Secretary

Read Morgan
as

Michael Mullins
as Sean Murphy

Ted White
as

Than Wyenn
as Judge

Don Furneaux
as Driver

Judie Carroll
as Secretary

Tom Regan
as Detective #2

Bill Jelliffe
as Britt - FBI Man

Andrew Masset
as Felton

Tony Ramirez
as Sean Murphy at Age 10

George Brenlin
as Fred Forster
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