This powerful story of postwar hopes and dreams, from Sloan Wilson's best-seller, resonated with many men and their families.

Gregory Peck stars as a doting husband and father who gives up his smalltime job and enters the more promising world of advertising. With added tension at work and increasing problems at home with his wife (Jennifer Jones), the rising young executive must decide, as his boss (Fredric March) did, what is the most important thing in life - family or success?