***SPOILERS*** It was heart breaking for hotel bell hop Larry Peters, Arnold Morris, to find out that his hero former all star football running back Jess Burdon, Alan Alda, was involved in covering up a death at his place of employment the Ledo Hotel. It was there that Jess set up out of towner attending a convention Harry Weeks, Guy Sorel, in a fixed card game where in finding out that he's been fleeced ended up getting killed for it!
With the cops finding out that Larry was delivering ice at room 403, the room where the homicide took place, about the time that Weeks was killed he was declared the prime suspect in the crime. Trying to get Burton, who in fact didn't kill Weeks, to turn himself in of just skip town until the heat's off has his partners who were responsible for cheating and thus killing him Al McBride, Morgan Storne, and Lou Curtis, played by former middleweight champion of the world Rocky Grazino,turn on Burdon in getting him to set up Larry for the kill.
Refusing to have his friend Larry murdered to keep his mouth shut has Burdon now on the hot seat in him now being targeted for murder by McBride & Curtis making matters for him even worse then they already are to say the least. The ending has Larry turn the tables on both Curtis & McBride but only at his hero's Burdon's expense! By keeping his mouth shut and trying to get Burdon to distance himself from the two thugs, Curtis & McBride, in the end ended up with him in fact getting murdered by them. That while trying to save Larry's life from being dropped off a 15 floor construction site that Burdon was to have him, with Curtiss & McBride's help, killed at.