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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Ronald Colman
Beauregard Bottomley
Celeste Holm
Flame O'Neill
Vincent Price
Burnbridge Waters
Barbara Britton
Gwenn Bottomley
Art Linkletter
Happy Hogan
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Gabriel Heatter
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George Fisher
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Byron Foulger
Gerald
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Release Date
May 11, 1950
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy
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