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* ReferencedBy: Music/BobDylan's 1986 song "Brownsville Girl" (which he co-wrote with Music/SamShepard) is an [[EpicRocking 11-minute long]] ShaggyDogStory, but it's framed by references to this film.
-->Well, there was this movie I seen one time\\
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck\\
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself\\
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck
-->Well, there was this movie I seen one time\\
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck\\
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself\\
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/ RogerCorman was a script reader at Fox, and advised that this should go straight into production. He also claims to have made contributions and adjustments to the screenplay, but has never been credited.
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/ RogerCorman Creator/RogerCorman was a script reader at Fox, and advised that this should go straight into production. He also claims to have made contributions and adjustments to the screenplay, but has never been credited.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film rights were originally purchased by Columbia Pictures, which offered the Jimmy Ringo role to Creator/JohnWayne. Wayne turned it down, despite having expressed a strong desire to play the part, because of his longstanding hatred for Columbia's president, Harry Cohn. Columbia sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, where the role went to Creator/GregoryPeck. Creator/ClarkGable was also considered.
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/ RogerCorman was a script reader at Fox, and advised that this should go straight into production. He also claims to have made contributions and adjustments to the screenplay, but has never been credited.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film rights were originally purchased by Columbia Pictures, which offered the Jimmy Ringo role to Creator/JohnWayne. Wayne turned it down, despite having expressed a strong desire to play the part, because of his longstanding hatred for Columbia's president, Harry Cohn. Columbia sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, where the role went to Creator/GregoryPeck. Creator/ClarkGable was alsoconsidered.considered.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Big Gun''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film rights were originally purchased by Columbia Pictures, which offered the Jimmy Ringo role to Creator/JohnWayne. Wayne turned it down, despite having expressed a strong desire to play the part, because of his longstanding hatred for Columbia's president, Harry Cohn. Columbia sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, where the role went to Creator/GregoryPeck. Creator/ClarkGable was also
* WorkingTitle: ''The Big Gun''.
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* RevisedEnding: In the original ending, Hunt Bromley was arrested by the sheriff, but studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck was enraged at this resolution, so Henry King and Nunnally Johnson rewrote the final scene.
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* RecycledSet: The western street set seen in the film was also used in ''Film/TheOxBowIncident''.
* RevisedEnding: In the original ending, Hunt Bromley was arrested by the sheriff, but studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck was enraged at this resolution, so Henry King and Nunnally Johnson rewrote the final scene.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film rights were originally purchased by Columbia Pictures, which offered the Jimmy Ringo role to Creator/JohnWayne. Wayne turned it down, despite having expressed a strong desire to play the part, because of his longstanding hatred for Columbia's president, Harry Cohn. Columbia sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, where the role went to Creator/GregoryPeck. Creator/ClarkGable was also considered.
* RevisedEnding: In the original ending, Hunt Bromley was arrested by the sheriff, but studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck was enraged at this resolution, so Henry King and Nunnally Johnson rewrote the final scene.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film rights were originally purchased by Columbia Pictures, which offered the Jimmy Ringo role to Creator/JohnWayne. Wayne turned it down, despite having expressed a strong desire to play the part, because of his longstanding hatred for Columbia's president, Harry Cohn. Columbia sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, where the role went to Creator/GregoryPeck. Creator/ClarkGable was also considered.
