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.

• Cardinal Pictures
• United Artists
• Ronald Colman
• Celeste Holm
• Vincent Price
• Barbara Britton
• Art Linkletter
• Gabriel Heatter
• George Fisher
• Byron Foulger