Visiting her backstage following a performance, he invites her to a country May Day fair the next day and she accepts...They say that old Fats just shoots the eyes right off them balls." Fats, the best hustler in the land, makes a side comment to one of his pals, Big John (Michael Constantine): "Big John? Do you think this boy is a hustler?" And then he offers o accept the poolshark""s challenge - at a higher wager of $200 per game:Fats: Do you like to gamble, Eddie? Gamble money on pool games?Eddie: Fats, let""s you and I shoot a game of straight pool.Joe: And supposin"" I don""t?Ryker: You and the other squatters...This is a tense, violent confrontation between the fence-building homesteaders, and the open-range land cow ranchers - an allegory of the settlement and progressive civilization of the West.A search party consisting of Edmund and Caspian found the pile of treasure and fragments of Eustace""s burnt clothes.In the Western, scrub-brush setting of the modern world, on the outskirts of a small town, only little boys are riding on the toy horses in the drive-in""s playground.