Plot: Opportunistic con man, Dan Kehoe, is on the run when he stops off at a small town saloon and hears stories of the four notorious McDade Brothers. Three of the career outlaws were killed on their last job while one escaped... his identity unknown. Hearing that their $50,000 cache of stolen gold is hidden somewhere on the family ranch at Wagon Mount, Kehoe ignores warnings about their feisty mother, who dislikes visitors and is a crack shot, and ingratiates himself with the old woman with a phony story about meeting her surviving son in a jail cell. He also uses his charm on the four beautiful man-hungry McDade widows, who have stayed with their cantankerous mother-in-law for the past two years - each hoping that her husband is the surviving son and sole claimant to the money. Ma guards her daughter-in-law's chastity as tightly as the hidden gold and soon realizes that with Kehoe, she has let the fox into the henhouse.
Alternative Plot: The four McDade brothers stage a successful heist -- except that three of them are killed. When their wives and mother learn that only one of the young men survived with the loot, they are eager to find out which one. Slick traveler Dan Kehoe (Clark Gable) catches wind of this strange situation and decides to charm the women in hopes of eventually enjoying the spoils. Before long, however, the lonely females begin competing for Dan, disintegrating into a cut-throat battle royal for his heart.
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