Due to the townspeople""s cowardice (representing cooperative witnesses before the HUAC), physical inability, self-interest, expediency, and indecisiveness, he is refused help at every turn against a revenge-seeking killer and his gang.The tall, tuba-playing, unworldly, eccentric bachelor, local tallow factory manager, and unassuming poet, local-yokel Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) arrives wearing a leather jacket, hat and a bow-tie.Paul and Marcia are sorrowful about the timing:Paul: I met you too late, yet something inside me won""t let me believe it.Dan Tobin welcomes Thornton into the inner circle of Innisfree citizens: "Sean Thornton - the men of Innisfree bid you welcome home.