The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

Alan Alda
Caryl W. Chessman

Talia Shire
Rosalie Asher

John Hillerman
George Davis

Barnard Hughes
Judge Fricke

Virginia Kiser
Virginia Gibbons
Edward Mallory
Warden Teets

Walter McGinn
J. Miller Leavy

Ben Piazza
Bill Edmunds

John Randolph
Judge Lewis Goodman

John P. Ryan
Johnson

James B. Sikking
Mr. Lea

Maxine Stuart
Mrs. Asher