After a round of partying he can't remember, World War II veteran Dave Hirsh is placed on a bus headed for the last place he'd choose: Parkman, Indiana, the hometown Hirsh hasn't seen in well over a decade. [url=nm0000069] plays Hirsh, whose arrival in Parkman brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in this character-driven tale directed by [urlnm0591486] from a novel by [urlnm0428296] (whose From Here to Eternity had led to Sinatra's 1953 Oscar). In his first screen pairing with Sinatra, [urlnm0001509] plays a sharp-witted cardsharp. And [urlnm0000511] earned one of the movie's five Academy Award nominations as the good-hearted floozie with a potentially fatal attraction to Hirsh.