Champagne for Caesar

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Champagne for Caesar

1950

1h 39m

Comedy

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When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) interviews with Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price) for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal (Celeste Holm) to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

Dennis Schwartz

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Has a field day spoofing the moronic TV shows sponsored by soap companies.

Rated: B+

May 6, 2010

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Oct 13, 2005

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Rated: 4/5

Sep 5, 2003

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Sea S

One of my very favorite old comedy films. Ronald Coleman convinces as the brilliant, dignified "walking encyclopedia" who knows about everything except - as it turns out - affairs of the heart. Here we see a young Art Linkletter as a game show host, Barbara Britton as Coleman's understanding sister, and and over the top Celeste Holm as a devious femme fatale. But Vincent Price steals the show : he plays an eccentric CEO about to lose his company, and his mind !

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/13/24

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Audience Member

The best comedy movie ever made!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

Cute movie that Im sure few have ever seen.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

I still remember laughing my hat off while watching this film during my early teen years.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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bill t

Fun little movie isn't going to change the world, but it's cute. Ronald Coleman stars as a bookbody wanting to one up the soap company he recently applied for a job to. So he appears on the quiz program sponsored by the soap company and proceeds to get every question right, much to their chagrin. The best part of this is Vincent Price, way past his usual realm of horror, as the soap company kingpin. Pretty surreal, but not the best thing you'll see.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

A lackluster comedy in which (Vincent Price) totally steals the show....

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Richard Whorf

Director

Ronald Colman

Beauregard Bottomley

Celeste Holm

Flame O'Neill

Vincent Price

Burnbridge Waters

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Synopsis

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) interviews with Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price) for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal (Celeste Holm) to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

Director: Richard Whorf
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Jan 11, 2016
Runtime: 1h 39m