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Champagne for Caesar

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When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) interviews with Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price) 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 (Celeste Holm) to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews May 6, 2010
B+
Has a field day spoofing the moronic TV shows sponsored by soap companies. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Oct 13, 2005
3/5
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal Sep 5, 2003
4/5
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Martin B @RT44235356 Aug 21, 2026 I'm sure I've seen funnier movies of the era but can't remember any better then this one. No real heavy hitter stars and no comedic specialists but just a terrific comedy start to finish. See more Sea S @RT60901187 Jun 13, 2024 One of my very favorite old comedy films. Ronald Coleman convinces as the brilliant, dignified "walking encyclopedia" who knows about everything except - as it turns out - affairs of the heart. Here we see a young Art Linkletter as a game show host, Barbara Britton as Coleman's understanding sister, and and over the top Celeste Holm as a devious femme fatale. But Vincent Price steals the show : he plays an eccentric CEO about to lose his company, and his mind ! See more Thomas M @TMProofreader Jan 27, 2019 The best comedy movie ever made! See more Sep 6, 2018 Cute movie that Im sure few have ever seen. See more Jan 25, 2017 I still remember laughing my hat off while watching this film during my early teen years. See more bill t @Spuzz Aug 25, 2015 Fun little movie isn't going to change the world, but it's cute. Ronald Coleman stars as a bookbody wanting to one up the soap company he recently applied for a job to. So he appears on the quiz program sponsored by the soap company and proceeds to get every question right, much to their chagrin. The best part of this is Vincent Price, way past his usual realm of horror, as the soap company kingpin. Pretty surreal, but not the best thing you'll see. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) interviews with Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price) 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 (Celeste Holm) to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
Director
Richard Whorf
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jan 11, 2016
Runtime
1h 39m
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