电影The plot re volves ar ound Richard Bean ( Kline), a Broadway sta r known for h is egotism, who exper iences a public br eakdown a nd retreat s to his ho metown. After returning to the fami ly-run theater where he fir st discove red his talen t, he finds hi s father, t he former artisti c director, s uffering fro m dementia. The theate r, now redu ced to a dinn er theater serv ing murder mys teries, is run by his b rother (Tenney) and sis ter-in-law, who is als o the town’s m ayor. De termine d to restor e the theate r’s former glory, Rich ard plans to stag e a grea t American classic, w ith himself as director an d star, in an effort to save both the theater and the tow n.！