On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
Richard Pryor
Jackie Gleason
Ned Beatty
Scott Schwartz
Teresa Ganzel
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Tony King
Annazette Chase
Don Hood
Karen Leslie-Lyttle
Virginia Capers
Steve Kahan
B.J. Hopper
Ray Spruell
Stocker Fontelieu
Robert Adams