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.
Length 119 minutes
Stephen Boyd | Elke Sommer | Milton Berle | Eleanor Parker | Joseph Cotten | Tony Bennett | Jill St. John | Ernest Borgnine | Edie Adams | Broderick Crawford | Walter Brennan | Ed Begley | Jack Soo | Peter Lawford | Jean Hale | James Dunn | Merle Oberon | Edith Head | Hedda Hopper | Peter Leeds | Nancy Sinatra | Bob Hope | Thordis Brandt | Joan Crawford | Frank Sinatra | Dennis Cross