Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders. **Academy Award** winner.

"Nice young man" and Mama's boy Leo Fuchs ("the Yiddish Fred Astaire") can't get himself married (eight broken engagements), so he becomes a schadchen - matchmaker. Ulmer's third and final Yiddish movie.