Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr., Eileen Heckart, Virginia Capers, Anne Ramsey, Lurene Tuttle, Tony Burton, Peg Shirley, Ernie Hudson, Dan Mason, Vincent Schiavelli, Cheryl Harvey, Jesse D. Goins, John Hancock, Lanyard A. Williams
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.