Onder andere met: Elvis Presley as Danny Fisher , Carolyn Jones (Ronnie, Maxie's mistress), Walter Matthau (Maxie Fields), Dolores Hart (Nellie), Dean Jagger (Mr. Fisher), Liliane Montevecchi (Forty Nina, a stripper at the club), Vic Morrow (Shark), Paul Stewart (Charlie LeGrand), Jan Shepard (Mimi Fisher), Brian G. Hutton (Sal, a member of Shark's gang), Jack Grinnage (Dummy, a mute member of Shark's gang), Dick Winslow (Eddie Burton), Raymond Bailey (Mr. Evans, the school principal)