
Casts

Burt Lancaster
as Gen. James Mattoon Scott

Kirk Douglas
as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey

Fredric March
as President Jordan Lyman

Ava Gardner
as Eleanor Holbrook

Edmond O'Brien
as Sen. Raymond Clark

Martin Balsam
as Paul Girard

Andrew Duggan
as Col. William "Mud" Henderson

Hugh Marlowe
as Harold McPherson

Whit Bissell
as Sen. Frederick Prentice

George Macready
as Christopher Todd