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.
Ronald Colman
as Beauregard Bottomley
Celeste Holm
as Flame O'Neill
Vincent Price
as Burnbridge Waters
Barbara Britton
as Gwenn Bottomley
Art Linkletter
as Happy Hogan
Gabriel Heatter
as Announcer
George Fisher
as Announcer
Byron Foulger
as Gerald
Ellye Marshall
as Frosty
Vici Raaf
as Waters' Secretary
John Eldredge
as Executive No. 1
Lyle Talbot
as Executive No. 2
