Overview

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

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Cast

Burl Ives

Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan

Shelley Winters

Nellie Romano

James Darren

Nick Romano

Jean Seberg

Barbara Holloway

Ricardo Montalban

Louie Ramponi

Ella Fitzgerald

Flora

Rodolfo Acosta

Max

Philip Ober

Grant Holloway

Jeanne Cooper

Fran

Bernie Hamilton

Goodbye George

Walter Burke

Wart

Francis De Sales

Night Court Magistrate