Cissy Hawk's farm keeps gaining massive blue ribbon hogs, while the passing drifters she hires magically disappear. Well-read grifter Jason Longfellow figures he'll last a lot longer at her Isle of Aiaie via blackmail, but seductive Cissy keeps local Sheriff Ulysses wound around her finger tighter than a pig's tail.
Wonderful black comedy stars Jo Van Fleet in the title role of Mrs. Cissy Hawk, a lonely widow who runs a prize-winning pig farm, with a penchant for picking up young male loners as potential husbands or handymen. Scheming blackmailer Jason Longfellow (John Carradine), Latin scholar and railroad hobo, sends his confederate Johnny Norton (Bruce Dern) to check out the premises, disappearing after an aborted attempt at robbery. An undeterred Jason then tries using another accomplice, Pete Gogan (Hal Baylor), passing himself off as the young man's uncle. Paul Newlan plays the local sheriff, who ferrets out the blackmail scheme but cannot solve the many disappearances, avoiding the widow's advances all the while.
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