Overview
This star-laden adaptation of Harold Robbins' best-selling 1949 novel about the birth of the movies features Mark Harmon as a drifter who comes under the wing of visionary nickelodeon operator Vincent Gardenia and goes on to become a pioneer in the incipient film business, facing the good times and the bad over a 20-year period.
Cast
- Mark Harmon as Johnny Edge
- Vincent Gardenia as Peter Kessler
- Morgan Fairchild as Dulcie Warren
- Brianne Leary as Doris Kessler
- Robert Picardo as Mark Kessler
- Eve Arden as Coralee
- Kaye Ballard as Esther Kessler
- Morgan Brittany as Astrid James
- Red Buttons as Bruce Benson
- Robert Culp as Henry Farnum