"In a light-hearted sequence, where the warfront is only a backdrop for frolicking hijinks, some of the men climb up into a hayloft to sleep.(He looks around at his gang and walks toward Harvey) What""s the matter with you guys? When I came here, you were nothin"".There""s some things in this world you simply got to face." And frequent "allusions" are being made between Brick and Rainbow Hill, a sanitarium for alcoholics - "it""s a place that""s famous for treatin"" famous alcoholics and dope fiends.To emphasize the father-son bond more strongly, about 15 minutes of overly-sentimental scenes of pathos were deleted (involving the character of the Kid""s guilt-wracked mother, her reconciliation with her husband, and some of the film""s more overt religious symbolism).It doesn""t matter whether he wins or not, he feels fine again afterwards.A recent series of cattle thefts ("about six hundred head") has plagued the town.News arrives from a rider that cattle rustlers have probably committed a brutal murder - a popular and respected local rancher named Larry Kinkaid ("a short dark Irishman, didn""t say very much, liked to sing a lot") has been "shot right through the head" and killed:Down in the SE corner of the valley, about eight miles from his ranch.