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.

• Universal Pictures
• Don Knotts
• Anne Francis
• Edmond O'Brien
• Maureen Arthur
• James Gregory
• Maggie Peterson
• Jesslyn Fax
• Jacques Aubuchon