John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
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Garrett Hanf
Toby
George Grizzard
Mr. Wooster
Polly Holliday
Mrs. Wooster
David Marshall Grant
Bob
Judith Ivey
Louise
Celeste Holm
The Celebrity
E. Katherine Kerr
The Woman
Alan Leach
Clerk
Katherine Balfour
Mrs. Brown
Paul Dooley
Detective
George Hamlin
Bank Officer
Beverly May
Chairwoman
Ralph Clanton
Harper
Minette Hirsch
Mrs. Chomsky
Dorothy Blackburn
Mrs. Worthington
