Joseph L. McEveety

Two safecrackers assist a brother and sister in faking their own kidnapping. The brother and sister's grandfather is forced to pay for their return.

Dexter Riley, a handsome but bumbling Medfield College student, accidentally becomes The Computer Who Knew Too Much when he is transformed into a genius after an electrifying computer mishap. Dexter now poses a threat to a local gangster's dangerous gambling operation as the new intellect becomes a pawn in the tug-of-war between the greedy college deans and the underworld.