Tennessee's Partner

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...

CAST

John PayneTennessee

Ronald ReaganCowpoke

Rhonda FlemingElizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham

Coleen GrayGoldie Slater

Anthony CarusoTurner

Morris AnkrumJudge Parker

Leo GordonThe Sheriff

Chubby JohnsonGrubstake McNiven

Joe DevlinPrendergast

Myron HealeyReynolds

John MansfieldClifford

Angie DickinsonAbby Dean (uncredited)

Fred AldrichTownsman (uncredited)

Walter BaconTownsman (uncredited)

George BarrowsTownsman (uncredited)