Ed Wynn, as spry old Ezra Tallicott, enlists the aid of State Representative Slattery. Earnest hero Slattery fights against closing a home for the aged.

State representative Slattery (Richard Crenna) is crusading in a different direction. In an obvious effort to show a more romantic side to Slattery, you are to believe he is capable of being sidetracked by shapely lobbyist Sally Kellerman, one of "those Utopian reformers."

Hero Slattery has a hard time convincing a high-minded representative that compromise isn't a dirty word but one of the basic laws of government. The plot is believable and guest Ricardo Montalban is fine as the idealistic Latin.