While conflict with Cora was developing and increasing, the delicate Letty was being courted by two neighboring ranch cowboys: the uncouth cowboy Lige (Lars Hanson), and his dim-witted, comic sidekick Sourdough (William Orlamond).The message of director John Sturges"" taut and influential film can be interpreted with different levels of meaning, but predominantly as the tense portrayal of a one-armed stranger who intrusively has arrived in a half-forgotten desert town filled with ruffians.It would later be revealed that the lessons in the school were entirely irrelevant and useless, and the medicinal reatments were ineffective and viewed as "magic.(It had already been spotted on Lovegood""s necklace, in the children""s book, on he Peverell grave at Godric""s Hollow, and in Harrys"" vision outside Gregorovitch""s Wand Shop.