***SPOILERS*** Hysterically funny political movie that has a totally naive and simple man, or man of the people, Zachary Hicks, Guy Kibbee, suffering from a pair of ill-fitting shoes get the Progressive Nomination for governor with ex-con, in him being behind in his alimony payments, Hal "Samson" Blake, Warren William, becoming his campaign manager. Doing everything to make Hicks acceptable as governor Blake soon runs into problems with his estranged wife Maybelle, Vivienne Osborne, storming into Hick's campaign office demanding the $400.00 he's behind in his alimony payments or she'll call the cops on him and have him put back behind bars.
There's also the case of Blake's secretary Kay Russell, Bette Davis, who's planning to marry him finding out that he's in fact still married to Maybelle a fact he kept from her all this time. With the campaign for governor's race in full swing Blake has to somehow come up with the $400.00 or else get exposed as a dead beat husband and cause his client Zachary Hicks to end up going down in flames in the upcoming election.
***SPOILERS*** Ther's also a sub-plot hatched against Hicks in getting him into a compromising position with a married women-Maybelle no less-who tricks the dope into playing a game of strip poker which he, in trying to impress her, purposely loses to her leaving him with only his long-johns on and having a crew of newspapermen and photographers ready to bust into his motel room an catch and photograph him in the act! The ending of the film is a bit strained but still a happy one with Hicks elected governor by a landslide with Blake finally dumping his wife Maybelle and marrying Kay in of all places Reno Nevada before Maybelle has a chance, in re-marrying Blake, to prevent it from happening!
There's also the case of Blake's secretary Kay Russell, Bette Davis, who's planning to marry him finding out that he's in fact still married to Maybelle a fact he kept from her all this time. With the campaign for governor's race in full swing Blake has to somehow come up with the $400.00 or else get exposed as a dead beat husband and cause his client Zachary Hicks to end up going down in flames in the upcoming election.
***SPOILERS*** Ther's also a sub-plot hatched against Hicks in getting him into a compromising position with a married women-Maybelle no less-who tricks the dope into playing a game of strip poker which he, in trying to impress her, purposely loses to her leaving him with only his long-johns on and having a crew of newspapermen and photographers ready to bust into his motel room an catch and photograph him in the act! The ending of the film is a bit strained but still a happy one with Hicks elected governor by a landslide with Blake finally dumping his wife Maybelle and marrying Kay in of all places Reno Nevada before Maybelle has a chance, in re-marrying Blake, to prevent it from happening!