He abruptly leaves after receiving he tragic news that his father has had a stroke.The beautiful harmony of their mutual attraction is shattered.The last shot of the scene is a long, sustained close-up of Mary (with a mixed expression of sadness, concern and disappointment).Some of the film was shot on-location near Olvera Street (an historic section north of downtown Los Angeles, transformed in 1930 into a colorful Mexican marketplace and cultural center), as well as Universal City, Pasadena, Eagle Rock, and Occidental College.During supper, Aaron's adopted son, part-Cherokee (one-eighth) Martin "Marty" Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), an orphan saved years earlier by Ethan from an Indian slaughter and raised by the family, rides a horse bareback (Indian-style), leaps off his horse, and bursts into the doorway [another framed doorway motif, linking the two characters who both rode toward an open door for their entrance] to meet Ethan, his uncle.I'm the boss in this house.And when I say I'm going to the convention, I'm going...A third vase hits the same target, crowning the argument once and for all.Mrs.Hardy rushes into the room and snatches the bowl of ornamental fruit away from Stan's vicinity.Know-it-all Stan counsels Ollie: "If you're not careful, she's going to get the upper hand of you.Now mark my words." Stan's wife Betty (Dorothy Christy), who has arrived home from duck-hunting with a rifle in her hand, walks into the room behind them, framed between the two husbands." He leans on the pig corral and looks toward the departing figure on the horizon, contemplating the easy bounty money for the betterment of his kids.