In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Tony Curtis
as David Wilson
Dean Martin
as Michael Haney
Janet Leigh
as Ann Wilson
James Whitmore
as Harry Powell
John McIntire
as Bob Doyle
Barbara Nichols
as Gloria Coogle
Larry Keating
as Parker
Larry Storch
as Orenov
Simon Oakland
as Belka
Joi Lansing
as Florence Coogle
Barbara Hines
as Foreign Exchange Student
Marion Javits
as Miss Mellish
