Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.

Clifton Webb
as Thornton Sayre

Ginger Rogers
as Gloria Marlowe

Anne Francis
as Carol Sayre

Jeffrey Hunter
as Bill Ainslee

Elsa Lanchester
as Mathilda Coffey

Fred Clark
as Sam Levitt

Paul Harvey
as DW Harrington

Ray Collins
as Timothy Stone

Helene Stanley
as Mimi

Richard Garrick
as Judge Bowles
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Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Rona...