Tennessee's Partner

Sep 21, 1955

1h 27m

★ 6.5

When the West was a Shameless Young Hussy!

Overview

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...

Genres

Western

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Benedict Bogeaus Production

Tennessee's Partner Trailers

Cast

Tennessee

John Payne

Cowpoke

Ronald Reagan

Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham

Rhonda Fleming

Goldie Slater

Coleen Gray

Turner (as Tony Caruso)

Anthony Caruso

Judge Parker

Morris Ankrum

The Sheriff

Leo Gordon

Grubstake McNiven

Chubby Johnson

Prendergast

Joe Devlin

Reynolds

Myron Healey

Clifford

John Mansfield

Abby Dean (uncredited)

Angie Dickinson

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