[Argus]

This is the slowest showdown in history. If this were GUNSMOKE, Marshall Dillon would've died of old age waiting for the bad guy to draw.

[archy]

If this were GUNSMOKE, Marshall Dillon would've died of old age waiting for the bad guy to draw.

If they hadn't been using blanks, Marshal Dillon would have died a good deal sooner than that. He lost the draw to that opening-scene dressed-in-black opponent every week, fast-draw instructor and holstermaker Arvo Ojala. James Arness was a practiced amateur, Arvo Ojala was an artist and a master. And Big Jim Arness was not Arvo Ojala's only admiring friend...

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