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.

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Cast

Dan Dailey

Doc Tilbee

Diana Lynn

Zerelda Wing

Scatman Crothers

Enoch Jones

Hugh O'Brian

Chilton Corr

Carole Mathews

Clara Brink

Rhys Williams

Pete McCoy

Thomas E. Jackson

Billy Gray

Russell Simpson

Sheriff Evans

George Chandler

Deputy Leach

Virginia Brissac

Mrs. Spooner

John Maxwell

Mr. Spooner

Doris Packer

Mrs. Swaile