A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.

As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.

Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.