All the above comments are true. What moved me to comment was the richness of the sets and costumes. Who can forget what the bad Luke Plummer looked like with his Montana Peak Hat and chaps. Not a word he said, yet he moved around the bar with a realistic belligerent grace. What of the Stagecoach stop manager with the Apache wife. The point is even the most minor characters added to the texture of the film. These colorful characters are sadly lacking in today's movies where everyone from almost every nation looks and acts the same.
The set of Lordsburg at night seemed so real one could almost sense it by smell; e.g. horse dung, tobacco smoke, wood somoke, cheap perfume, and (of course) gunsmoke!
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