There were a number of light-hearted jokes in the film, e.g., (1) the film""s running joke about the American correspondent""s embarrassing loss of his distinctive and respectable English bowler hat three times - it was stolen, left in a cab, and blown off in he wind, and (2) a rattled pedestrian trying to cross a busy village street.It""s happened to better men than you.And it""s happened to me.When we come back, I""ll get you all some nice, clean underwear.He instructs them in proper protection from shell fire: "That cannon shell you don""t have to pay much attention to.Marshal Earp identified him: "That""s ""Dutch"" Henry Brown! I thought you said you didn""t know him!" McAdam answered: "I said I didn""t recall the name" - he implication was that the mysterious bar patron,"Dutch Henry Brown" (Stephen McNally), had taken an assumed name and hat McAdam knew him by another name and that he was the object of a long pursuit...It""s the first time the Streamliner has stopped here in four years." [Symbolically, the guilty citizens of the forgotten town have bred concealment, and the dusty, uninviting, dying Black Rock has not had outside contact for many years.