Tragický príbeh, ktorý mapuje kariéru amerického herca Edwina Bootha (Richard Burton) spolu so zmienkami o udalostiach vedúcich k atentátu, ktorý spáchal jeho brat na prezidenta Abrahama Lincolna.
Hrají: Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Le Gallienne, Ian Keith, George Melford, .....Eleanor Audley, Mae Marsh, Ben Wright, John Doucette, Lane Chandler, Richard Deacon, Jack Mower, Ruth Clifford, Charles Cane, Barbara Morrison, Bert Stevens, Kenner G. Kemp, Frank Mills, Paul Frees, Steve Darrell, Burt Mustin, Michael Jeffers, Joe Ploski, Bill Walker, Waclaw Rekwart, William Fawcett, Al Haskell, Jack Tornek, Chet Brandenburg, Nolan Leary, Ethan Laidlaw, Brick Sullivan, Cap Somers, Booth Colman, Dayton Lummis, Wilbur Mack, Sol Gorss, Richard Travis, Joe Devlin, Herman Hack, King Mojave, Bob Reeves, Chalky Williams, Mimi Gibson, Olan Soule, Henry Rowland, Tom Fadden, Duke Fishman, Edmund Cobb, Carl M. Leviness, Eddie Foster, Emmett Lynn, Jack Mather, Jack Kenny, George Dunn, Richard H. Cutting, Ann Kunde, Paul Newlan, Paul Kruger, Paul Wexler, Jack Raine, Mathew McCue, Ruth Warren, Henry Kulky, Paul Stader, Michael Granger, Leo Curley, Whitey Hughes, Steve Hayes, Leoda Richards
Režie: Philip Dunne
Scénář: Moss Hart
Producenti: Philip Dunne
Hudba: Bernard Herrmann
Kamera: Charles G. Clarke
Střih: Dorothy Spencer
Scénografie: Lyle R. Wheeler, Walter M. Scott
Kostýmy a make-up: Ben Nye, Mary Wills
Zvuk: Harry M. Leonard