In the film, self-reliant Sheriff John T.Chance (John Wayne) refused the well-meaning assistance of Pat Wheeler""s (Ward Bond) men -- "some well-meaning amateurs, most of ""em worried about their wives and kids," although all he had to help him keep a murderer from making a jailbreak was "a lame-legged old man and a drunk.George enters his father""s office and listens to the conversation between his father and Potter.The contrast between Bailey and Potter is clear - Potter wears black, sits in a wheelchair, and is a "hard-skulled," villainous, miserly banker demanding immediate payments and whose consuming goal in life is to destroy the Building and Loan.) A bomb device had been seen in a parked car on Parking Level 1 (in the basement) of the evacuated International Control Systems Inc.One of the film""s taglines described his second escape:"Six sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom.