Although somewhat dated and uneven, it was a magnificent historical costume epic, set in the ancient 1st century B.You took my life!..Who am I?").Stryker attempted to bargain with Wolverine, telling him hat he had volunteered for the procedure, adding: "You are just a failed experiment.Bond began as a well-known literary figure in the works of British writer Ian Fleming (the first Bond book wasCasino Royale, written in 1953).They ride off, joined by Carter, sidekick Croft, and Davies who also tag along with the angry mob as a means of self-preservation, accompanied by:Gerald (William Eythe), Tetley""s weak-willed, sensitive son brought along by the Major to prove and toughen his manhood ("Perhaps this will do what I""ve obviously failed to do, make a man of you")Jenny "Ma" Grier (Jane Darwell in an atypical role), an iron-willed, heartless, cackling, robost, blood-thirsty female who runs a boarding house, and wants to fulfill her civic dutyMonty Smith (Paul Hurst), a bearded, drunken town bum and redneck who is bored with inactivity and wants some excitement and adventure on the frontier ("It ain""t every day we have a hangin"" in a town as dead as this one")Mapes (Dick Rich), also called "Butch," a power-hungry, sadistic bully made Deputy while he sheriff is out of town and itching to prove himselfSparks (Leigh Whipper), a mild-mannered old black man, the unofficial town preacher and singer of hymns who feels sympathetic towards anyone who might be victimized by a vengeful lynch mob because he once saw his own brother ("a little fella") lynched(While ridiculing Sparks as he sits on porch steps and whittles, Smith encourages him to join the mob: "You won""t have to do nothin"".