Overview
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.
Cast
- 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