Burton played Reid Lawerence, an actor "paralysed by a falling lift."
A media report claims that Burton would play an Academy Award-winning actor down on his luck who suddenly wins another Oscar.
[1] Another media report claims that the story was about "a famous actor" who "fakes a grave illness" to collect insurance money.
[2] Young, Kaufman, Alexander and Burton had just finished making the troubled 1974 film The Klansman.
One media report claims that the "insurance swindle thriller" stalled due to a lack of funds.