A tough, womanizing gambler known only as Tennessee narrowly avoids being murdered due to the intervention of Cowpoke, a lonesome traveller in town to meet his fiancee Goldie as she arrives on a steamboat. The two men strike up an friendship, but their newfound cameraderie is severely tested when Cowpoke's sweetheart arrives in town, and immediately attracts Tennessee's attention. Western, starring John Payne, Rhona Fleming, Coleen Gray and future US President Ronald Reagan.

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...