Angela Rossini (Sophia Loren) is a woman who seems to create the situations she gets into and Tom Healy (Anthony Quinn) is strong, silent but soft-hearted. As the troupe carries on with their performances heading through Wyoming, they are fighting for their economic survival and, as often as not, running like the devil from the law. There is a likeable villain in the piece, Mabry (Steve Forrest), a zany woman who has "sacrificed" her own dubious stage career for that of her daughter (Eileen Heckart), a so-called Shakespearean actor (Edmund Love), a banker with menacing undertones (Ramon Novarro) and a really hysterical Indian attack.