Tennessee's Partner is a 1955 American Western film, directed by Allan Dwan, written by: Graham Baker, D.D.

Beauchamp, Milton Krims and Teddi Sherman, with uncredited rewrites by Dwan, and starring: John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming and Coleen Gray.

The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures, which was then owned by industrialist Howard Hughes.

While the film is based upon one of Bret Harte's most popular short stories, "Tennessee’s Pardner", it departs significantly from the original storyline.

The 1869 Harte story has also been filmed as Tennessee's Pardner (1916), The Flaming Forties (1924) and The Golden Princess (1925).

Tennessee is torn between telling Cowpoke about her past or keeping quiet.

Reynolds, also a gambler, arrives on the same boat as Goldie, planning to kill Tennessee.

He tries to persuade her to go to San Francisco with him, showing her the $50,000 he made at the card table.

When Cowpoke arrives to meet Goldie, Duchesse tells him she left with her luggage and Tennessee.

The sheriff takes Tennessee back to his place, but the map has been stolen.

As the character based on Bob Gaudio explains in the musical Jersey Boys: "I'm watching the million dollar movie.

She looks up at him defiant, proud, eyes glistening – and she says: 'Big girls don't cry'.

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