A charming Las Vegas hotel owner named Neil Chaine gets fired by his superiors from the hotel-casino where he operates.

Determined to seek revenge on his former employers in a subtle way, Chaine uses his severance pay to purchase a decaying casino next door to his former hotel to turn it into the Strip's top attraction.

When the film first aired, the public did not know that Hudson had been diagnosed with AIDS earlier in the year, despite clear physical evidence of his experiencing the symptoms.

In a scene with Sharon Stone in a cell at Alcatraz Rock, Hudson quotes an Oscar Wilde line from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".

The movie cuts to an implied heterosexual sex scene between Rock Hudson and Sharon Stone in the prison cell.