After 5 years of living with ageing Linda, old Shugfoot Rainey wants to
dump her for the new model - his young niece Baby Doll, formerly New
Orleans stripper. But Linda doesn't give up that easily, as she has her
legal status as common law wife (meaning she is, without being
officially married to Rainy, actually his wife for him having slept with
her & made other people believe they are married) confirmed. A fight
between her on one side & Shugfoot (great name) & Baby Doll on
the other ensues. But Baby Doll has an agenda of her own: She wants to
1) take revenge on Shugwood for molesting her as a child, &
2) she of course wants his
money, him being enormously rich.
To this end, she first hooks
up with the town's sheriff, her own brother in law & former (&
again) lover, &, when he refuses to take part inher plan, with Bull,
another former lover & alcohol distiller. She talks him into
poisoning Shugfoots whiskey - which Shugfoot actually drinks & dies
from ... Problem is, Baby Doll hasn't taken Linda into account, who
shoots her in cold blood no sooner than Shugfoot is dead. But than she
has a sip of the old man's whiskey ... & dies too, of course.
Neat & cheap backwoods
drama, no big deal but 78 minutes of fun, the pulp way.
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