Timid bank teller Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) saves a big gambler (Nestor Paiva) from being beaten up by a pair of hoodlums and becomes rich overnight on some sure bets engineered by the grateful friend of the turf.
Johnny spirals a $1,000 bill into a $60,000 fortune so fast he doesn’t even learn the horse’s name,
His erratic waiter pal Emile J Keck (Groucho Marx) takes over when Dalton comes to him with the happy financial news – and he keeps running with the $60,000 ball until the one-yard line, at which point – with a roll of his eyes – he lets Johnny go over the goal for the inevitable romantic touchdown.
Unfortunately, Johnny wins his large sum of money on the very day that a $75,000 shortage is discovered at the bank which employs him and his sweetheart, ‘Mibs’ Goodhue (Jane Russell), which puts him on the spot with his employers, JL McKissack (Harry Hayden) and young Bob Pulsifer (Don McGuire), the wolf-son of big shot RB Pulsifer (Howard Freeman) who owns the bank and several other reputable establishments.
Bob has designs on Mibs, and she goes for the things money can buy, even if she has to take Bob as part of the bargain.
There is – not unnaturally – some suspicion attached to a $42.50-a-week teller who suddenly turns up in a new Cadillac convertible and sends Mibs a mink coat.
Slapstick bathing scenes, encounters with the landlord, Santa Claus and a man with sunglasses are all scrambled into quite a jumble under the fast ad-libbing solutions Keck offers Johnny to get him out of his suspected spot.
A large supporting cast pops in here and there to maintain sequence in the ridiculous story.
Mildred ‘Mibs’ Goodhue
Jane Russell Emile J Keck
Groucho Marx Johnny Dalton
Frank Sinatra RB ‘Bob’ Pulsifer Jr.
Don McGuire RB Pulsifer Sr.
Howard Freeman ‘Hot Horse’ Harris
Nestor Paiva Mr Kofer
Frank Orth JL McKissack
Harry Hayden Mr Baganucci
William Edmunds IRS Tailman
Russ Thorson Mr Hartman
Hal K Dawson
Director
Irving Cummings
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His erratic waiter pal Emile J Keck (Groucho Marx) takes over when Dalton comes to him with the happy financial news – and he keeps running with the $60,000 ball until the one-yard line, at which point – with a roll of his eyes – he lets Johnny go over the goal for the inevitable romantic touchdown.
