Reply #109: I've just been playing a track on YouTube called Big Iron from Marty Robbins'

[Joe Chi Minh]

38 called Gunfighter Ballads, though it's actually a pretty witty tribute by Michael Martin Murphy. I'm a sucker for all this machismo shtick and love that song, but it makes the ending of this video, with its wee subplot, all the more hilarious.

What happens is that before the Texas Ranger shoots Texas Red in the showdown, you see two honky-tonk girls, like the rest of the townsfolk, at a window watching what was going on. After Red's shot dead, you see one of the girls with a pistol in her hand, looking out .... and looking quite pleased with herself - as does the Ranger, little knowing, of course, the unusual edge he had been given! Both women had pretty warm, interesting kind of faces, but Monca(!) looked as if she was more than spirited enough to have taken out the dreaded Red!