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.

• Paramount Pictures
• Embassy Pictures Corporation
• Stephen Boyd
• Elke Sommer
• Milton Berle
• Eleanor Parker
• Joseph Cotten
• Tony Bennett
• Jill St. John
• Ernest Borgnine