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...

• RKO Radio Pictures
• Benedict Bogeaus Production
• John Payne
• Ronald Reagan
• Rhonda Fleming
• Coleen Gray
• Anthony Caruso
• Morris Ankrum
• Leo Gordon
• Chubby Johnson