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.
Acting
Stephen Boyd commits to full sociopath energy; Tony Bennett exists
Production
Actual Oscar ceremony footage gives unhinged meta-documentary energy
Writing
Screenplay by three Oscar winners who apparently hated each other
Director
Russell Rouse
Stephen Boyd
Frank Fane
Elke Sommer
Kay Bergdahl
Milton Berle
Kappy Kapstetter
Eleanor Parker
Sophie Cantaro
Joseph Cotten
Kenneth Regan
Tony Bennett
Hymie Kelly
Jill St. John
Laurel Scott
Ernest Borgnine
Barney Yale
Edie Adams
Trina Yale
Broderick Crawford
Sheriff
Walter Brennan
Quentin
Ed Begley
Grosbard
Jack Soo
Sam
Peter Lawford
Steve Marks
Jean Hale
Cheryl Barker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Screenwriter Harlan Ellison later disowned it, calling the production 'a disaster.' Three Oscar-winning writers couldn't save this from itself.
This bombed so hard it helped kill the big-budget Hollywood exposé genre for decades. The industry literally couldn't handle being mocked this directly.
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