 | Robert Young als Joe Smith |
 | Marsha Hunt als Mary Smith |
 | Harvey Stephens als Freddie Dunhill |
 | Darryl Hickman als Johnny Smith |
 | Jonathan Hale als Blake McKettrick |
 | Noel Madison als Schricker |
 | Don Costello als Mead |
 | Joseph Anthony als Conway |
 | William Forrest als August 'Gus' Stoffen |
 | Russell Hicks als Mr. Edgerton |
 | Mark Daniels als Pete |
 | William Tannen als Eddie |
 | Dorothy Adams als Nurse (uncredited) |
| Ernie Alexander als Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited) |
 | Billy Bletcher als Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited) |
| Hubert Brill als Card Player in Waiting Room (uncredited) |
| John Butler als Elias Canfield (uncredited) |
 | George M. Carleton als Doctor Treating Joe at Home (uncredited) |
 | Cliff Clark als Police Captain (uncredited) |
| Cliff Danielson als Sammy, Joe's Friend in Flashback (uncredited) |
| Helen Dickson als Schoolteacher (uncredited) |
 | Frank Faylen als Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited) |
 | John Gallaudet als Captain Jack Weldren (uncredited) |
 | Ava Gardner als Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| Eddie Hart als Security Guard at Aircraft Plant (uncredited) |
 | Maynard Holmes als Boyd Sheldon, Draftee (uncredited) |
 | Robert Homans als Old Man in Waiting Room (uncredited) |
 | Mitchell Ingraham als Drug Store Owner (uncredited) |
 | Selmer Jackson als Hospital Doctor (uncredited) |
 | Gladden James als Edgerton's Secretary (uncredited) |
 | Robert Kellard als Mel Lewis (uncredited) |
| Richard Kipling als Harry - Car Driver (uncredited) |
 | Paul Kruger als First Police Driver (uncredited) |
| Warren McCollum als Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited) |
 | James Millican als Aircraft Plant Foreman (uncredited) |
| Frances Morris als Miss Maynard - McKettrick's Secretary (uncredited) |
| Philip Morris als Policeman Passenger (uncredited) |
| Kitty O'Neil als Mrs. Sheldon (uncredited) |
 | Eddie Parker als Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited) |
 | Lee Phelps als Second Police Driver (uncredited) |
 | Frances Raeburn als Daisy Knowlton (uncredited) |
 | John Raitt als Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited) |
 | Connie Russell als Jane Babcock (uncredited) |
 | James Seay als Roy, Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited) |
| Edgar Sherrod als Minister (uncredited) |
| Al Trescony als Old Man's Son in Waiting Room (uncredited) |
 | Dick Wessel als Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited) |
 | Robert Blake als Johnny Smith (age 5) |
| Richard Thorpe | Director |
| Paul Gallico | Story |
| Allen Rivkin | Screenplay |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Daniele Amfitheatrof | Original Music Composer |
| Jack Chertok | Producer |
| Dore Schary | Producer |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Charles Lawton Jr. | Director of Photography |
| Harry Rapf | Executive Producer |
| Elmo Veron | Editor |
