Stuart Whitman as Joey Collins

May Britt as Eadie Collins

Peter Falk as Abe Reles

Henry Morgan as Burton Turkus

Simon Oakland as William Tobin

David J. Stewart as Louis "Lepke" Bucholter

Sarah Vaughan as Singer

Morey Amsterdam as Walter Sage

Eli Mintz as Joe Rosen

Joseph Bernard as Mendy Weiss

Warren Finnerty as Bug Workman

Vincent Gardenia as Lazlo

Helen Waters as Rose Corsi

Leon B. Stevens as Loughran

Howard Smith as Albert Anastasia

Sylvia Miles as Sadie

Josip Elic as Alpert

Lou Polan as Louis

Dorothy Stinnette as Betty Shaw

Bill Bassett as Eadie's Killer

Barbara Wilkin as Receptionist

Seymour Cassel as Teenager

Diane Ladd as Showgirl

Harold Gary as Sal