Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 12/17/2002
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
This comedy stars
Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position with a large soap company, but Burnbridge Walters (
Vincent Price), the firm's willfully eccentric president, falls into a "trance" while interviewing Beauregard and decides not to give him the job. When Beauregard overhears his sister Gwenn (
Barbara Britton) listening to a game show sponsored by Walters' soap company, he discovers the perfect means to get revenge -- each time a contestant answers a question correctly, they double their prize money. Beauregard gets a spot on the show and starts winning -- and doesn't stop. Before long, the company owes him $40 million and Beauregard hasn't even broken a sweat. Beauregard is poised to bankrupt Walters and destroy his company, so the soap tycoon persuades Flame O'Neal (
Celeste Holm) to pose as a nurse who will (a) find out if there's anything Beauregard doesn't know, and (b) distract him romantically. While a critical success and something of a cult item,
Champagne for Caesar was a box office disappointment on its initial release;
Ronald Colman appeared in only two more films before his death eight years later.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
