Tennessee's Partner
When the West was a Shameless Young Hussy!
Directed by Allan Dwan
Produced by RKO Radio Pictures, Benedict Bogeaus Production
A mid-century Western melodrama built on romantic tension and betrayal, where a gambler's cynicism collides with genuine friendship and desire.
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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