I noticed in this viewing that Valance’s winning hand was “aces and eights,” the same that legend has it Wild Bill Hickock pulled right before being shot in the back, now known as the “Dead Man’s Hand.” Also noticed that Peabody, while staggering around drunk was reciting out loud Shakespeare’s Saint Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V. Always new things to see in a great work of art.
And Luke Plummer’s hand was Aces and Eights in the 1939 Stagecoach.