Synopsis

After Billy Payton's butler wins the Lotto and buys Billy's run-down Beverly Hills mansion, the unemployed. once-nominated for an Academy Award, egotistical, going-down-the-tubes, totally broke, dramatic actor and his wife, with no practical means of support, have no choice but to accept the offer to become the butler and the maid for their lotto winning butler and, his wife, the maid.

Humiliated, Billy's wife leaves and tells him she will not return until he buys the mansion back. When the ex-maid is about to throw Billy out of the mansion for his "bad attitude," Billy receives an offer to star in a film by two recent graduates from the University of Southern California Film School. Billy's first reaction after hearing the title of film is to turn the part down - "My image.!" However, Billy realizes his back is to the wall and, if he wants his wife and mansion back, he has no choice but to take the role, especially, since the film has already been funded.

The Film: "The Masked Avenger and his Horse Wheaties."

The film is about a masked urban crime fighter who pursues crooks through the streets and alleys of L.A., Little Tokyo, Watts, Hollywood, Korea Town, China Town, West L.A., Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the docks of Long Beach and San Pedro and Venice Beach. In his pursuit, the Masked Avenger rides his super-horse "Wheaties," who has a mini computer programmed to the mini-rockets and other futuristic mini crime-fighting gadgets and scopes mounted on top and on the sides of his saddle.

Hollywood hears and laughs. Billy becomes the favorite target for ridicule in the trades and in the media. Will the flick became a hit or a bomb? Can Wheaties save Billy Payton?

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