"Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s."
Robert Mitchum
as Victor 'Pug' Henry
Ali MacGraw
as Natalie Jastrow
Jan-Michael Vincent
as Byron Henry
John Houseman
as Aaron Jastrow
Polly Bergen
as Rhoda Henry
Lisa Eilbacher
as Madeline Henry
David Dukes
as Leslie Slote
Chaim Topol
as Berel Jastrow
Ben Murphy
as Warren Henry
Peter Graves
as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby
Jeremy Kemp
as Armin Von Roon
Ralph Bellamy
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Victoria Tennant
as Pamela Tudsbury
Wolfgang Preiss
as Walther von Brauchitsch
William Woodson
as Narrator (voice)
Herman Wouk
Novel
Penelope L. Foster
First Assistant Director
Mauro Marchetti
Assistant Camera
Barbara Steele
Associate Producer
Bob Cobert
Original Music Composer
Charles Correll
Director of Photography
John F. Burnett
Editor
Bernard Gribble
Jack Tucker
Peter Zinner
Jackson De Govia
Production Design
Reuben Cannon
Casting Director
Dan Curtis
Producer