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
• Karen Black
• David Groh
• Howard Da Silva
• Tom Atkins
• Scott Brady
• Victor Jory
• Brian Keith