Cast
- Elvis Presley as Mike Edwards, cropduster pilot
- Joan O'Brien as Diane Warren, World's Fair nurse and eventual love interest of Edwards
- Gary Lockwood as Danny Burke, Mike's gambling-addicted business partner
- Vicky Tiu as Sue-Lin, a young girl befriended by Mike
- Yvonne Craig as Dorothy Johnson, a love interest of Mike's
- H. M. Wynant as Vince Bradley, Danny's crooked associate
- Kam Tong as Walter Ling, Sue-Lin's uncle
- Edith Atwater as Miss Steuben
- Guy Raymond as Barney Thatcher
- Dorothy Green as Miss Ettinger
- Red West as Fred (uncredited)
- Joe Esposito as Carnival Man (uncredited)
Kurt Russell had an uncredited speaking role as a boy who Mike Edwards pays 25ยข to kick him, thus giving him a chance to visit Nurse Warren. Russell would go on to play Elvis in the made-for-television film Elvis, provide the voice for Elvis in Forrest Gump, and portray an Elvis impersonator in 3000 Miles to Graceland.
Vicky Tiu, sister of entertainer Ginny Tiu, later grew up to be the first lady of Hawaii when she married Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano.
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