After saving Mona Freeman from drowning in Sacramento, Bret Maverick decides
to back her in a new line of work. She's collecting feral cats. from one and all
in Sacramento to take them to the small mining camp town of Paradise where
the rats and mice are overrunning the place. But when they make it to Paradise
she double crosses Garner in a most undignified way.
As in the previous Maverick story where Jack Kelly is conned this proves once
again that the fatal Maverick weakness seems to be thinking with the male
member. Though I have to say there really was no great reason to try and
con James Garner out of his earnings. Just pay him off and he's out of her
life and he has a fresh grubstake for poker which of course is why he went into
the feral cat business.
But Freeman has other con games in mind. Familiar folks like Buddy Ebsen
as the sheriff and Richard Deacon as the undertaker are in the cast.
Mona is some piece of work.