Television writer Elliot Nash (Glenn Ford) makes increasingly desperate attempts to raise money in order to pay off a blackmailing photographer who threatens to publish nude photos of Elliot's actress wife, Nell (Debbie Reynolds). Unable to sell his house quickly enough, Elliot concludes that he has no choice but to murder the blackmailer. He schemes to utilize the installation of Nell's cherished antique gazebo and its quick-drying cement foundation, but finds himself burying the wrong body.