During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair.

Reparto

Eli Wallach

Ben Harris

Anne Jackson

Gloria Fiske

Dustin Hoffman

Hap

Bob Dishy

Jerome "Jerry" Fiske

Ruth White

Mrs. Edna Kelly

Charles Nelson Reilly

Registrar

Elizabeth Wilson

Receptionist

David Doyle

Housing Clerk

Roland Wood

Mr. Tom Kelly

John Harkins

Leo

David Burns

Mr. Ratner

Bibi Osterwald

Mrs. Theodora Ratner

Sudie Bond

Miss Lane

Rae Allen

Beverly

Kim August

Toni

Sherman Raskin

Red Schwartzkopf

Judith Lowry

Elderly Tenant (uncredited)