**_Clark Gable and four beautiful women in the Old West_** An opportunistic man in the Southwest (Gable) travels to a ranch owned by a cantankerous mother of four outlaws, all of whom are dead except maybe one. Their four wives have been without a man for two years and everyone seems obsessed with stolen loot buried somewhere on the property. “The King and Four Queens” (1956) features a set-up reminiscent of “The Beguiled” fifteen years later. The difference is that Eastwood’s flick is a serious tragedy whereas this one has fun spirit beneath it all, not to mention a wholly contrived sto…
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