Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

• Roxbury Productions
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Paul Newman
• Geraldine Page
• Shirley Knight
• Ed Begley
• Rip Torn
• Mildred Dunnock
• Madeleine Sherwood
• Philip Abbott