The Louisiana Hussy

She Got What She Wanted ... Giving Men What They Wanted!

4.7

|1959|85 min

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

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