Overview
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Cast
- Stephen Boyd as Frank Fane
- Elke Sommer as Kay Bergdahl
- Milton Berle as Kappy Kapstetter
- Eleanor Parker as Sophie Cantaro
- Joseph Cotten as Kenneth Regan
- Tony Bennett as Hymie Kelly
- Jill St. John as Laurel Scott
- Ernest Borgnine as Barney Yale
- Edie Adams as Trina Yale
- Broderick Crawford as Sheriff