

87 minutes
1/1/1953
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.

Dan Dailey
as Doc Tilbee

Diana Lynn
as Zerelda Wing

Scatman Crothers
as Enoch Jones
Chet Allen
as Tad Bayliss

Hugh O'Brian
as Chilton Corr

Carole Mathews
as Clara Brink

Rhys Williams
as Pete McCoy

Thomas E. Jackson
as Billy Gray

Russell Simpson
as Sheriff Evans

George Chandler
as Deputy Leach

Virginia Brissac
as Mrs. Spooner

John Maxwell
as Mr. Spooner

Doris Packer
as Mrs. Swaile

Edna Holland
as Miss Burghey
George Spaulding
as Governor