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...
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John Payne
Tennessee
Ronald Reagan
Cowpoke
Rhonda Fleming
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham
Coleen Gray
Goldie Slater
Anthony Caruso
Turner
Morris Ankrum
Judge Parker
Leo Gordon
The Sheriff
Chubby Johnson
Grubstake McNiven
Joe Devlin
Prendergast
Myron Healey
Reynolds
John Mansfield
Clifford
Angie Dickinson
Abby Dean (uncredited)
Fred Aldrich
Townsman (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
Townsman (uncredited)
George Barrows
Townsman (uncredited)
