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* MagnificentBastard: [[PragmaticVillainy Jed Curry]] is a rich man who covets Big Jim Cole’s land, which he once owned, so that his sons can have a ranch of their own to work. [[AffablyEvil He puts up a gracious front in dealing with Cole, offering him a reasonable price for the ranch]]. He lambasts his sons for antagonizing Cole and [[ToughLove refuses to bail them out of trouble at every turn]]. He shows a darker side by using his position as a bank shareholder to forcibly stop a policy of accepting personal items as collateral and giving Cole an unfair mortgage when he needs money to replace his stock after a bear attack. Curry posts to attract professional hunters to pursue a killer bear and keep amateur hunters from dying. When Cole seeks the bounty, Curry eggs on Cass Dowdy, a BountyHunter who hates Cole, by offering him cash and telling Cass that losing the reward will ruin Cole and cause his land to go to Curry. Even after Cole kills the bear and saves his ranch, Curry is no worse off than before due to his efforts to remain inside the law and [[NothingPersonal keep his feud with Cole from becoming personal]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Cole's niece Meg is one of the least important or developed characters in the movie, and many people agree this is a shame, as she shows some promise in her UST-filled interactions with Curry’s younger son and the comic moment where she takes a drink from a spiked punchbowl.

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* MagnificentBastard: [[PragmaticVillainy Jed Curry]] is a rich man who covets Big Jim Cole’s land, which he once owned, so that his sons can have a ranch of their own to work. [[AffablyEvil He puts up a gracious front in dealing with Cole, offering him a reasonable price for the ranch]]. He lambasts his sons for antagonizing Cole and [[ToughLove refuses to bail them out of trouble at every turn]]. He shows a darker side by using his position as a bank shareholder to forcibly stop a policy of accepting personal items as collateral and giving Cole an unfair mortgage when he needs money to replace his stock after a bear attack. Curry posts a reward to attract professional hunters to pursue a killer bear and keep amateur hunters from dying. When Cole seeks the bounty, Curry eggs on Cass Dowdy, a BountyHunter who hates Cole, by offering him cash and telling Cass that losing the reward will ruin Cole and cause his land to go to Curry. Even after Cole kills the bear and saves his ranch, Curry is no worse off than before due to his efforts to remain inside the law and [[NothingPersonal keep his feud with Cole from becoming personal]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Cole's niece Meg is one of the least important or developed characters in the movie, and many people agree this is a shame, as she shows some promise in her UST-filled {{UST}}-filled interactions with Curry’s younger son and the comic moment where she takes a drink from a spiked punchbowl.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Cole's niece Meg is one of the least important or developed characters in the movie, and many people agree this is a shame, as she shows some promise in her UST-filled interactions with Curry’s younger son and the comic moment where she takes a drink from a spiked punchbowl.
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* MagnificentBastard: [[PragmaticVillainy Jed Curry]] is a rich man who covets Big Jim Cole’s land, which he once owned, so that his sons can have a ranch of their own to work. [[AffablyEvil He puts up a gracious front in dealing with Cole, offering him a reasonable price for the ranch]]. He lambasts his sons for antagonizing Cole and [[ToughLove refuses to bail them out of trouble at every turn]]. He shows a darker side by using his position as a bank shareholder to forcibly stop a policy of accepting personal items as collateral and giving Cole an unfair mortgage when he needs money to replace his stock after a bear attack. Curry posts to attract professional hunters to pursue a killer bear and keep amateur hunters from dying. When Cole seeks the bounty, Curry eggs on Cass Dowdy, a BountyHunter who hates Cole, by offering him cash and telling Cass that losing the reward will ruin Cole and cause his land to go to Curry. Even after Cole kills the bear and saves his ranch, Curry is no worse off than before due to his efforts to remain inside the law and [[NothingPersonal keep his feud with Cole from becoming personal]].
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* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Menacing BountyHunter Cass Dowdy doesn't appear until about halfway through the film, but his chilling performance and occasional PetTheDog moments make him one of the film's best-liked characters.
** LazyBum general store helper Hank is fairly incidental to the plot, but his FriendToAllChildren moments and Creator/JackElam PlayingAgainstType make fans fondly remember him.
** Mr. Benson is OutOfFocus for the second half of the movie, but his role as a generous aversion of the MorallyBankruptBanker archetype makes him a fan favorite.
* ValuesDissonance: It's far less likely a child would be named Gypsy in the modern day, when the word is seen as a racist slur.
* ValuesResonance: Cole expresses disapproval about how BountyHunter Cass Dowdy killed fugitives in cold blood even though all but one of them were guilty and sent Cass to prison in the BackStory for one of the murders despite their working relationship. In an era where unjustified police shootings remain a serious problem and often go unpunished, Cole's attitude has aged well.

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