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