- Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.
- Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career, his marriage, his art and morality. Castle is pressured by his studio boss, and manipulated into a potentially murderous cover-up to protect his career. An indictment of the amoral world of Hollywood and its corrosive effect upon the artist.—Thomas Robbin
- Hollywood movie star Charlie Castle, under contract at Hoff-Federated Studios, is being pressured by studio chief Stanley Hoff, and Hoff's right-hand man Smiley Coy, to sign a seven-year renewal deal, something that Charlie is reluctant to do. Life at Hoff-Federated has already taken its toll on his marriage, his wife Marion having moved out of their Bel Air mansion with their son Billy, as there is as much focus - if not more - on extracurricular activities as there is on movie making, Charlie having previously cheated on Marion, including with his faithful agent Buddy Bliss' sexually aggressive wife Connie. In addition, both Charlie and Marion have been unhappy with the movies that the studio has made, not having the substance that either envisioned. To save their marriage, as Marion has threatened leaving him for good if he signs (to be with their mutual friend, writer Hank Teagle, who has already proposed to her), Charlie is willing to walk away from Hollywood altogether rather than sign with another studio to give Hoff the satisfaction that no one else in the business would benefit. The issue in the background is that Hoff and Smiley are well aware of the truth of Charlie being behind a vehicular death for which Buddy took the fall, Buddy having served ten months in prison for it; whether or not it is spoken, Hoff would use it to pressure Charlie into signing. Beyond Hoff and Smiley, one other person is aware of what really happened, the starlet Dixie Evans, also under contract at Hoff-Federated. Dixie, who Hoff uses more as window dressing at studio parties than in any substantive movie roles, may inadvertently divulge this information in her anger and unhappiness with life at Hoff-Federated.—Huggo
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