To keep him company, he had two pet turtles Cuff and Link, a tiny goldfish named Moby Dick, and a curling wall poster of heavyweight boxing idol Rocky Marciano.Then, they realized that the Death Star had sent enemy fighters against them - TIE fighters to engage in dogfights with he Rebel ships.Stallone became the third person to be nominated for both acting and writing in the same year, following Charles Chaplin forThe Great Dictator (1940)and Orson Welles forCitizen Kane (1941).They ride off, joined by Carter, sidekick Croft, and Davies who also tag along with the angry mob as a means of self-preservation, accompanied by:Gerald (William Eythe), Tetley""s weak-willed, sensitive son brought along by the Major to prove and toughen his manhood ("Perhaps this will do what I""ve obviously failed to do, make a man of you")Jenny "Ma" Grier (Jane Darwell in an atypical role), an iron-willed, heartless, cackling, robost, blood-thirsty female who runs a boarding house, and wants to fulfill her civic dutyMonty Smith (Paul Hurst), a bearded, drunken town bum and redneck who is bored with inactivity and wants some excitement and adventure on the frontier ("It ain""t every day we have a hangin"" in a town as dead as this one")Mapes (Dick Rich), also called "Butch," a power-hungry, sadistic bully made Deputy while he sheriff is out of town and itching to prove himselfSparks (Leigh Whipper), a mild-mannered old black man, the unofficial town preacher and singer of hymns who feels sympathetic towards anyone who might be victimized by a vengeful lynch mob because he once saw his own brother ("a little fella") lynched(While ridiculing Sparks as he sits on porch steps and whittles, Smith encourages him to join the mob: "You won""t have to do nothin"".