"The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality."
Burt Lancaster
as Jim Thorpe
Charles Bickford
as Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner
Steve Cochran
as Peter Allendine
Phyllis Thaxter
as Margaret Miller
Dick Wesson
as Ed Guyac
Jack Big Head
as Little Boy Who Walk Like Bear (as Jack Bighead)
Sonny Chorre
as Wally Denny (as Suni Warcloud)
Al Mejia
as Louis Tewanema
Hubie Kerns
as Tom Ashenbrunner
Nestor Paiva
as
Eula Morgan
Jimmy Ogg
as Bellboy (uncredited)
Michael Curtiz
Director
Russell Birdwell
Novel
Jim Thorpe
Gordon Bau
Makeup Artist
Oliver S. Garretson
Sound
Ellsworth Fredericks
Camera Operator
Murray Cutter
Orchestrator
Technical Advisor
William Wallace
Set Decoration
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
Douglas Morrow
Screenplay
Story
Everett Freeman
Vincent X. Flaherty
David Curtiz
Second Unit Director
Producer
Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
Folmar Blangsted
Editor
Edward Carrere
Art Direction
Bertram Tuttle
Supervising Art Director
Frank Davis
Dialogue