Summary
In the dusty, morally ambiguous crucible of the Old West, a beleaguered proprietor of the Lame Cow Saloon finds himself ensnared in a web of escalating peril, his establishment a volatile nexus for two unbridled forces of destruction: Three-Gun Perkins, a notorious purveyor of lead-slinging mayhem, and Cold Steel Steve, whose very moniker chills the blood with promises of blade-wielding brutality. Driven to the precipice of ruin by their incessant, life-threatening presence, the saloon owner devises a desperate, morally bankrupt scheme. He summons Nifty Nell, a woman whose allure is as potent as any weapon, tasking her with an audacious, double-edged mission: to simultaneously ensnare the affections of both dangerous men. The insidious objective is to ignite a conflagration of jealousy and rivalry between Perkins and Steve, pushing them towards a mutually assured destruction. The hope, grim and pragmatic, is that in their inevitable, explosive confrontation, at least one of these formidable antagonists will be permanently removed from the owner's precarious existence, thus restoring a semblance of order, albeit one forged in deception and bloodshed, to his beleaguered enterprise. This Machiavellian plot, steeped in the era's raw survival instincts, explores the lengths to which a person will go when cornered by an intractable threat, leveraging human weakness and desire as instruments of a deadly game.
Synopsis
The owner of the Lame Cow Saloon is at his wit's end because of the presence of dangerous gunfighter Three-Gun Perkins and dangerous knife fighter Cold Steel Steve. He sends for Nifty Nell and tells her to woo them both and get them to fight each other, then at least one of them would be out of the way.
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