Overview

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

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Cast

Ronald Colman

Beauregard Bottomley

Celeste Holm

Flame O'Neill

Vincent Price

Burnbridge Waters

Barbara Britton

Gwenn Bottomley

Art Linkletter

Happy Hogan

Byron Foulger

Gerald

Vici Raaf

Waters' Secretary

John Eldredge

Executive No. 1

Lyle Talbot

Executive No. 2

John Hart

Executive No. 4

Mel Blanc

Caesar (voice)

Peter Brocco

Fortune Teller