Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson, a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime — and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.

• Murray-Wood Productions
• United Artists
• Don Murray
• Larry Gates
• Cindi Wood
• Keir Dullea
• Logan Ramsey
• Don Joslyn
• Sam Capuano
• Vince O'Brien