
A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he can write in complete seclusion. Things start heating up, though, when a succession of people who also have keys to the inn begin showing up.

as George Washington Magee

as Mary Norton

as Myra Thornhill (as Elda Furry)

as Mrs. Rhodes

as Mayor Cargan

as Lou Max

as Thomas Hayden (as C. Warren Cook)

as John Bland

as Hall Bentley

as Peter the Hermit

as Police Chief Kennedy

as Langdon

as Quimby

as Clerk