Overview
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Director and cast
- Nat Hiken Director
- Don Knotts as Abner Audubon Peacock
- Anne Francis as Lisa LaMonica
- Edmond O'Brien as Osborn Tremaine
- Maureen Arthur as Evelyn Tremaine
- James Gregory as Darrell Evans Hughes
- Maggie Peterson as Rose Ellen Wilkerson
- Jesslyn Fax Cast
- Jacques Aubuchon Cast
- Marjorie Bennett Cast
- Jim Boles Cast
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