In his debut performance, Holden scores as a violin prodigy who makes some extra dough on the side as a prizefighter. Not likely, but the performances make it work, particularly Stanwyck's as a corrupting influence. Tragic consequences result when she lures the golden boy from practicing his scales. Based on Odets' 1937 play. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Score.

Talented violinist Joe Bonaparte is tempted to sacrifice his music for a career as a professional boxer. Encouraged by an unscrupulous manager and the manager's seductive girlfriend, Joe turns his back on his family and his musical education for the fame and fortune of the ring. But he finds that they cannot compensate for the loss of his violin.

DVD Features:

Full Frame - 1.33

William Holden: American actor, STALAG 17, SUNSET BOULEVARD, NETWORK
Barbara Stanwyck: American actress, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, STELLA DALLAS
Lee J. Cobb: American actor, ON THE WATERFRONT, THE EXORCIST
Adolphe Menjou: American actor, THE FRONT PAGE (1931)
Joseph Calleia: Supporting Actor/1940s
Sam Levene: American Actor
Edward Brophy: American Character Actor
Don Beddoe: American Character Actor
Frank Jenks: American Character Actor
Charles Halton: Actor, worked with Wilder, Lubitsch, and Wyler, '10s-'50s
John Wray: 
Charles Lane: Film & television character actor 1930s-2000s

Rouben Mamoulian: Director/In USA
Karl Freund: German-American Director Of Photography/Director

William Perlberg: 

Sarah Y. Mason: Screenwriter, LITTLE WOMEN (1933)

Victor Young: Score Composer - "Three Coins in the Fountain"

Otto Meyer: Editor\1940s