Folks often ask, "Were townsfolk generally as cowardly and cowered as portrayed in movies like High Noon?" Was it that difficult to get men of the towns to be deputies, either paid or as volunteers?
And then there was the matter of the long arms Will Kane (Gary Cooper) packed. When he went out to confront four miscreants, he left the rifles in the office, adding only a second six-gun whic
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