The sheriff and his sidekick tracking James Stewart and Dean Martin are named July Johnson and Roscoe. Both of these characters appear in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove as a sheriff and his sidekick out of Arkansas tracking Jake Spoon. Wonder about the connection between the two stories.
McMurtry is not mentioned in the writing credits, so if he didn't provide the names and reuse them, then he fell in love with them and 'reused' them at a later date. There are some other things that have a McMurtry fell, like when Stewart and Martin are talking about Montana, and the whole episodes of crossing the desert reminds me of Dead Man's Walk...
McMurtry is not mentioned in the writing credits, so if he didn't provide the names and reuse them, then he fell in love with them and 'reused' them at a later date. There are some other things that have a McMurtry fell, like when Stewart and Martin are talking about Montana, and the whole episodes of crossing the desert reminds me of Dead Man's Walk...