A divorcee forms a relationship with a group of latter-day cowboys struggling to eke out a living roping wild horses in the Nevada desert. John Huston's Western, starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter.

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.