Shortly after travelling salesmen Chester Wooley and Duke Egan arrive in Wagon Gap, Montana, Chester is falsely accused of murdering a local man and sentenced to death. According to a local law, Chester can be spared from the gallows if he takes responsibility for the dead man's debts and family, so he moves into the ramshackle home of the rowdy Widow Hawkins and her brood of seven noisy children. © 1947 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.