pPercy Piggott a Lancashire window cleaner will inherit a multimillion fortune providing that he spends a million quickly. His attempts to spend his money in New York get him involved with the production of a musical comedy the stock market and the race track all of which against the odds insist on making him a profit. Even the shady banker Van Norden and his seductive daughter fail to separate Percy from his money or from his uncomprehending girlfriend Sally. On a South Sea island Percy succeeds in smashing up and salvaging at great expense a yacht while personal conflicts fly in all directions but finally he manages to get rid of the last dollars just in time for the fatal hour and everything ends happily.pp 5 women 13 menp