Champagne for Caesar (1950)
1950 · Feature film · 99 min · dir. Richard Whorf
...the bubbliest, frothiest, tickliest comedy!
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Richard Whorf
- Writer
- Hans Jacoby
- Composer
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Cinematography
- Paul Ivano
- Studio
- Cardinal Pictures, United Artists
- Released
- 1950-05-11
- Running time
- 99 minutes
Cast & crew
Richard Whorf Director
Ronald Colman
Celeste Holm
Vincent Price
Barbara Britton
Art Linkletter- Gabriel Heatter
George Fisher
Byron Foulger
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · An almost forgotten classic comedy · kalimba313 · 2021-03-17
Ronald Coleman, Celeste Holm , Vincent Price, Barbara Britton and Art Linkletter In a David and Goliath tale. Coleman plays a man who is so well educated that he has a hard time finding steady work. On a job interview with a huge soap manufacturer he is refused a job by the eccentric, arrogant president. The president is played by Vincent Price in a rare and memorable comic role. To get revenge on the insulting president, Coleman goes on a quiz program run by the soap company. I will leave it there to avoid spoiling anything. Barbara Britton plays Coleman's sister who falls for the obnoxious…
