A Chicago hotel clerk befriends a visiting cowboy and soon talks his way into joining him on a cattle drive so he can impress the woman he loves. Naturally, the tenderfoot has no idea of what awaits him as he ventures out into the Wild West, an experience which forces him to undergo a dramatic change. Western, starring Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Anna Kashfi and Brian Donlevy.

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...