Having and traumatized by his time fighting in World War II, Jimmy Hanley comes home and decides that he's going to bring goodwill wherever he goes, and it makes him a pariah. That includes his family, his neighbors, strangers he encounters on the train and people he goes out of his way to contact. It's obvious that his do-gooder ways are considered interfering, although some of the people that he meets are just as bad or worse.
Standing by him, somewhat reluctantly at times, is his former nurse turned fiance, Anne Crawford, providing the toughness he needs to get over this obsession. He's often obnoxious in his efforts to make the world a better place, and it's hysterical to watch him fall on his behind when he fails or becomes a victim of a crowd tired of his meddling and often demanding nature, especially in his job as a journalist. Good supporting playets, a nice use of location footage and a sardonic nature in a cynical post war world aides this in being amusing, but it takes a lot for the hero to learn his lesson.
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