Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
