A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family

In the dance hall scene, the camera tracks briefly two couples dancing. One of the men was an extra named Andrew John Petersen, and the other was a young actor named Roy Scheider.

A pitcher on a major-league baseball team finds out that his catcher is desperately trying to hide something, he is dying of a terminal disease and he doesn't want the owner to find out and fire him.