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A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.

What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! An Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A 'reformed' gambler and homesteader sits down at the card table, loses his family's $4000 startup stake, and then is dealt a fantastic hand. What happens next is full deck of suspense, humor and surprises, many involving an aces-high ensemble and the newcomer's wife, who says...

Hills of Utah: As a "doctor on horseback," Gene returns to the frontier town where his father was murdered and finds a feud raging between mine owner Jayda McQueen and cattleman Bowie French. On top of old Smoky: Gene soon swings into action to help Jen Larrabee, the owner of a toll road who is having trouble with the local doctor and a gambler who both want Jen to relinquish her property, which contains valuable mica deposits.

An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.

Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.

A wandering supernatural feline's trio of adventures. The staff at Quitter, Inc. promises to help a nicotine addict kick the habit. If he doesn't, someone in his family might get smoked. Then a luckless gambler is forced into a bet involving a stroll around the outside of a building's 30th floor - on a 5 inch ledge. Then a young schoolgirl is rescued from a vile, doll-sized troll.