Bret Maverick meets up with brother Bart in New Orleans where they plan to obtain passage on a riverboat where big money poker games are held but end up getting involved in the kidnapping of the riverboat owner's daughter instead.

It's shades of 12 Angry Men when Bret becomes the lone holdout for a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. He has to use a long shot card trick to convince the other jurors that the defendant might be innocent.

Samantha Crawford arranges for Bret to sit in on a high stakes poker game but he's the fall guy when the game gets robbed.

After they arrive in an Arizona town, Bret and Bart are mistaken for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and end up preventing a bank robbery.

Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) — and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.

Bart Maverick and two of his friends are charged with murder. The town's citizens demand a confession from one of the three men, or else all three men will be prosecuted. Bart falsely confesses to the murder, but help from his friend Dandy Jim Buckley exonerates him from the crime.

Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money — only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.

A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.

After he's cheated in a crooked card game, Bret tries to even the score by beating his opponent — and the odds — in a horse race.

After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag — for murder.

Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor — and winds up facing a hangman's rope.