Glenn Ford stars in this genial black comedy starring Glenn Ford as Elliot Nash, a successful television writer who is married to an equally successful Broadway star, Nell Nash (Debbie Reynolds). One day a blackmailer pays Elliot a visit. He claims to have in his possession nude photographs of Nell taken during her leaner years. Elliot decides the only way out is to kill the blackmailer. After the murder, Elliot hides the body in the ground where he is planning to build a gazebo. But after Elliot's gazebo is built, the body of the blackmailer is uncovered at another location; now Elliot has to figure out whose body is buried underneath his gazebo.