A television script-writer, believing that he has murdered the man who is blackmailing him over nude photographs of his wife, buries the body under the gazebo, but still has to deal with the other three members of the man's gang.
An adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo for West German television broadcaster Radio Bremen.
The first film made from Claude Magnier's French adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo: Magnier's script was filmed again in 1995 as Une Femme dans les Bras, Un Cadavre sur le Dos.
The second production of Claude Magnier's French adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo, which had been previously filmed in 1971 as The Gazebo/Jo the Busy Body.
First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City by the Playwrights Co., 12 December 1958.
Premiered in London at the Savoy Theatre on 29 March 1960, produced by Anthony Sharp.
London cast members included Ian Carmichael (Elliott Nash), Michael Goodliffe (Harlow Edison), Moira Lister (Nell Nash), Edith Macarthur (Mrs Chandler), J. Grant Anderson (Mr Thorpe), Philip Latham (The Dook), Robert Robinson (Louie), John Harvey (Ryan), and Michael Ellison (Druker).
Source:
'The Arts. Murder as a Joke', The Times, 30 March 1960, p.15.