Movie Drama
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
Jack Nicholson Bruce Dern Ellen Burstyn Julia Anne Robinson Scatman Crothers Charles LaVine John P. Ryan Sully Boyar Josh Mostel Arnold Williams William Pabst Garry Goodrow Imogene Bliss Ann Thomas Tom Overton Maxwell Goldberg Van Kirksey Tony King Jerry Fujikawa Conrad Yama Scott Howard Henry Foehl Frank Hatchett Wyetta Turner
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