Tennessee's Partner

Tennessee's Partner

When the West was a Shameless Young Hussy!

NR 1955 · 87 min · ★ 6.5 · Western

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...

Directed by Allan Dwan · Written by D.D. Beauchamp

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John Payne Tennessee
Ronald Reagan Cowpoke
Rhonda Fleming Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham
Coleen Gray Goldie Slater
Anthony Caruso Turner
Morris Ankrum Judge Parker
Leo Gordon The Sheriff
Chubby Johnson Grubstake McNiven
Joe Devlin Prendergast
Myron Healey Reynolds
John Mansfield Clifford
Angie Dickinson Abby Dean (uncredited)

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