A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
William Powell
as Senator Melvin G. Ashton
Ella Raines
as Poppy McNaughton
Peter Lind Hayes
as Lew Gibson
Arleen Whelan
as Valerie Shepherd
Ray Collins
as Fred Houlihan
Allen Jenkins
as Farrell
Charles D. Brown
as Dinty
Hans Conried
as Waiter
Whit Bissell
as Robert Oakes
Milton Parsons
as 'You Know Who'
Francis Pierlot
as Frank
Oliver Blake
as Indian
