"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
Gordon Bau
Makeup Artist
Oliver S. Garretson
Sound
Ellsworth Fredericks
Camera Operator
Jim Thorpe
Technical Advisor
Novel
Russell Birdwell
Murray Cutter
Orchestrator
William Wallace
Set Decoration
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
Douglas Morrow
Screenplay
Vincent X. Flaherty
Story
Everett Freeman
David Curtiz
Second Unit Director
Edward Carrere
Art Direction
Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
Producer
Frank Davis
Dialogue
Bertram Tuttle
Supervising Art Director
Folmar Blangsted
Editor