The King and Four Queens

The con man Dan Kehoe arrives at a remote ranch where Ma McDade lives with her four daughters-in-law. The McDade brothers robbed a bank and hid the proceeds on the property, but three of them died in a fire while surrounded by the sheriff's men. One survived, and nobody knows which one. While the women wait to see who will return and claim the money, Kehoe works his way into the household, courting the widows in the hope of locating the hidden fortune. The women have their own designs on the gold, and the scheming runs in more than one direction.

Clark Gable plays Kehoe, with Jo Van Fleet as Ma McDade and Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane as the four young women. Raoul Walsh directed from a screenplay by Richard Alan Simmons and Margaret Fitts, with David Hempstead producing for United Artists and Russ-Field Productions. The film runs 86 minutes and mixes western, comedy and mystery elements.

It was the twenty-second of the twenty-three features Walsh directed in chronological order, arriving between The Revolt of Mamie Stover and The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.1 from around 2,200 votes, while on TMDB its rating stands at 5.6 from a much smaller number of votes.