Wilder plays an editor who gets involved in a murder plot while traveling across country on an express train.

A house of ill repute is in danger of being shut down unless the proprietor's boyfriend - the sheriff - can pull some strings. A sheriff and a proprietress join together not only in romance, but to fight a big city TV crusader in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down. A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV preacher targets it as the Devil's playhouse....