Richard Widmark as Dan Lunceford

Lionel Barrymore as Bering Joy

Dean Stockwell as Jed Joy

Cecil Kellaway as Slush Tubbs

Gene Lockhart as Andrew L. Bush

Berry Kroeger as Manchester

John McIntire as Thatch

Harry Morgan as Britton

Harry Davenport as Benjamin Harris

Paul Harvey as John Briggs

Jay C. Flippen as Luke Sewell

Robert Adler as Crew Member (uncredited)

Jimmy Hawkins as Boy (uncredited)