Something happens in this movie that I don't recall ever seeing in a movie before. Every night when Arthur O' Connell, the deputy sheriff Jim, goes home to his wife he hangs up his six gun in the office and puts his badge in his pocket. I don't ever remember seeing that in any other Western and I've seen a bunch of them.
shareI think it was to show that working as a deputy Marshall was becoming a huge burden. The fact it was repeated twice just emphasised that point.
This is a great film, and shows that there are excellent Hollywood films in such unlikely places.
Excellent point.
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I think his hanging up the gun and putting away the badge daily was also because his wife was pregnant with their first baby. She was against him being a deputy sheriff, and this way he left his work at the office.
share Yes we've all seen Winchesters locked up on a gun rack but this scene was weird. He should have unloaded it and put it in a draw.
It looked to me like he locked the trigger (did they have locks in those days?) and just to have it strap dangling like it was a hatrack or something looked very odd?
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