Inside he Pioneer Stage Line coach is Thomas Jefferson Destry (James Stewart) [a reference to the famous 3rd President and to the recent role Stewart had played in another 1939 filmMr.And what wives don""t know won""t hurt them.To embellish the masquerade of his supposed two-week vacation in Florida, Jerry returns home to his luxurious place with wo athletic-club friends (to serve as a protective buffer), all dressed in tweedy outfits: Mr.1948 was the year in which Laurence Olivier""sHamlet (1948)became the first British film ever to win the Best Picture Oscar.Then as a symbolic gesture, he lets the farmer and his Negro hired hand/sharecropper Davis shoot more bullets into the abandoned building and the panes of its windows.