**SPOILERS*** Wild and crazy as well as complicate film about the sleazy world of back-door politics at the highest levels; Like that of senator governor and even possibly,in things brake the persons in questions way, President of the United States.
It all starts when gardener for the rich and well connected in the state Tom Morley, Robert Colbert, noticed that rich and sexually frustrated Paula Thornwall, June Blair, was all alone in her house with her estranged husband Walter, Rhodes Reason, nowhere to be seen or heard from. Thinking that Paula s hot for action Morley breaks into her home and tries to hit on her only to get slapped silly by Paula. It turns out to Morley's great disappointment that he's, being a low class working man, not up to Paula's high standers in society as a possible lover.
It doesn't take long for an outraged Morley to knock Paula cold and suffocate her with a pillow and then set the house on fire, making it look like she died smoking in bed, to cover his tracks or crime. But it doesn't take long for the police, with the help of an eye witness, to figure out that Paula was murdered and it's her totally innocent husband Water who's arrested for her murder! With state attorney general Dan Callahan, Jack Kelly,seeing a chance to make a name for himself in becoming the state's governor he jumps on the case and indites Walter Thornwall for the first degree murder of his wife Paula! This leads to a circus atmosphere in that Dan's good friend Leland Hoffman, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, is also interested in running for governor and just happened to be the judge who's to preside on the Thornwall murder case! And if things aren't crazy enough the state US senator Alex "Smiley" Simon, Don Ameche, is also planning to run for governor even though he has four years left to fill out his senate term!
As the movie churns to it's surprise and unbelievable ending we also get to know that Smiley's old lady Cathy, Angie Dickerson, was once madly in love with Hoffman who was married at the time. With Hoffman now available, his wife mysteriously died two years also, she now want's to rekindle her relationship with the handsome judge but that's now out of the question in Smiley suffering from a bad heart and the news of her leaving him would very possibly kill the guy! As things turn out Smiley did collapses and later die of a heart attack when it was revealed that Hoffman was going to expose a bribe, a federal judgeship, that Smiley offered him if he would stay out of the gubernatorial race.
***SPOILERS*** To make a long long long and boring story as short as possible it's the horny gardener Tom Morley who finally cracks under the pressure and admits his guilt in the Paula Thornwall murder which for some strange reason make Dan Callahan who was prosecuting her husband Walter for her murder the favorite to get the nomination for governor! But there's more surprises coming in that Hoffman who was to be disbarred for not reporting a bribe becomes the favorite of the states delegates and even former governor and Walter's uncle Oliver P.Thronwall, Herbert Marshall in getting the nomination for governor. And just when it looked like his both career in law as well as politics was just about over Hoffman reaches the pinnacle of his career in both professions!
P.S check out the future "Matag Man" Jesse White as Don Calahan's boyhood friend and chief muckraker Sgt.Mikey Beers as well as actor Carol O'Connor as political king-maker and newspaper publisher Matt Keenan in his motion picture duet.
It all starts when gardener for the rich and well connected in the state Tom Morley, Robert Colbert, noticed that rich and sexually frustrated Paula Thornwall, June Blair, was all alone in her house with her estranged husband Walter, Rhodes Reason, nowhere to be seen or heard from. Thinking that Paula s hot for action Morley breaks into her home and tries to hit on her only to get slapped silly by Paula. It turns out to Morley's great disappointment that he's, being a low class working man, not up to Paula's high standers in society as a possible lover.
It doesn't take long for an outraged Morley to knock Paula cold and suffocate her with a pillow and then set the house on fire, making it look like she died smoking in bed, to cover his tracks or crime. But it doesn't take long for the police, with the help of an eye witness, to figure out that Paula was murdered and it's her totally innocent husband Water who's arrested for her murder! With state attorney general Dan Callahan, Jack Kelly,seeing a chance to make a name for himself in becoming the state's governor he jumps on the case and indites Walter Thornwall for the first degree murder of his wife Paula! This leads to a circus atmosphere in that Dan's good friend Leland Hoffman, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, is also interested in running for governor and just happened to be the judge who's to preside on the Thornwall murder case! And if things aren't crazy enough the state US senator Alex "Smiley" Simon, Don Ameche, is also planning to run for governor even though he has four years left to fill out his senate term!
As the movie churns to it's surprise and unbelievable ending we also get to know that Smiley's old lady Cathy, Angie Dickerson, was once madly in love with Hoffman who was married at the time. With Hoffman now available, his wife mysteriously died two years also, she now want's to rekindle her relationship with the handsome judge but that's now out of the question in Smiley suffering from a bad heart and the news of her leaving him would very possibly kill the guy! As things turn out Smiley did collapses and later die of a heart attack when it was revealed that Hoffman was going to expose a bribe, a federal judgeship, that Smiley offered him if he would stay out of the gubernatorial race.
***SPOILERS*** To make a long long long and boring story as short as possible it's the horny gardener Tom Morley who finally cracks under the pressure and admits his guilt in the Paula Thornwall murder which for some strange reason make Dan Callahan who was prosecuting her husband Walter for her murder the favorite to get the nomination for governor! But there's more surprises coming in that Hoffman who was to be disbarred for not reporting a bribe becomes the favorite of the states delegates and even former governor and Walter's uncle Oliver P.Thronwall, Herbert Marshall in getting the nomination for governor. And just when it looked like his both career in law as well as politics was just about over Hoffman reaches the pinnacle of his career in both professions!
P.S check out the future "Matag Man" Jesse White as Don Calahan's boyhood friend and chief muckraker Sgt.Mikey Beers as well as actor Carol O'Connor as political king-maker and newspaper publisher Matt Keenan in his motion picture duet.