Three childhood girlfriends reunite at the parents' remote cottage where they try and come to grips with their separate development and diverging interests. Then a man with a secret shows up and lies his way into their situation. They take turns falling in love with him and then suspecting he is not being level with them, which causes a strain in their already strained relationship. Eventually they must make a decision on whether to get rid of him or flee.

Johnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, comes across the remote Cuckoo Bird Inn after escaping from a band of cut-throat moonshiners and a mysterious killer. He realizes there that he must discover the identity of the killer before the inn's demented occupants turn him into another display in the grotesque Chapel of the Dead.

查尔斯．布朗森一贯给人粗犷的动作片英雄形象，但他跟爱妻吉尔．艾尔兰合演的这部西部喜剧却吐露作声见的诙谐感。剧情在荒谬之中带有一点小小的嘲讽，气概颇为别致。老查在片中饰演一个小毛贼，在作案途中临阵逃走，躲藏孀妇茕居的豪宅中，使尽花言巧语将孀妇骗得团团转，使他在平易近团前来围捕前得以诈死溜走。不意孀妇竟将两人独处的故事酿成畅销小说，小毛贼顿变年夜英雄，使真正的主角啼笑皆非。导演弗兰克．吉尔原为驰誉编剧，剧情架构不落俗套，映象叙事手法也轻松流利。