A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
John Payne
as Tennessee
Ronald Reagan
as Cowpoke
Rhonda Fleming
as Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham
Coleen Gray
as Goldie Slater
Anthony Caruso
as Turner (as Tony Caruso)
Morris Ankrum
as Judge Parker
Leo Gordon
as The Sheriff
Chubby Johnson
as Grubstake McNiven
Joe Devlin
as Prendergast
Myron Healey
as Reynolds
John Mansfield
as Clifford
Angie Dickinson
as Abby Dean (uncredited)
