After a moment’s thought I wondered how Matt knew who to shoot. I mean the wagon could have belonged to the Indian and the Cowboy was fixing to steal it.

The story line overlooked the cold-blooded murder of another human being and Matt just rode off after checking to see that the Cowboy had recovered from the ordeal.

Now being a writer I thought I’d add my own dialogue to the scene…

Somewhere along the dusty trail stands a covered wagon with two horses hitched to it. In the back of the wagon is an Indian and a Cowboy wrestling, with the Cowboy having a gun in his hand and the Indian with a knife in his hand.

Matt Dillon suddenly comes on the scene. He whips his horse nearly senseless as he races towards the pair fighting in the wagon. He draws his gun and shoots the Indian dead. He reholsters his gun and says to the Cowboy. “You all right there mister?”

“I am now Marshall. Thanks for shooting that Indian for me.”

“My pleasure,” replies the Marshall, beaming full of pride at his gallant effort. Suddenly
the Marshall sees an Indian woman coming up from under a blanket in the back of the wagon. She has a knife in hand so the Marshall draws his gun and shoots her dead as well.

“It seems this place is crawling with Indians today,” says the Marshall, reholstering his hot gun. “You take your wagon and head straight for the safety of the fort.”

“Oh it’s not my wagon,” said the Cowboy.

“What do you mean it’s not your wagon?” asks Matt, sitting high in his saddle.

“The wagon belonged to the Indian and his wife. I offered to buy it from him for a dollar but he wouldn’t listen to reason.”

“You’re pulling my leg now aren’t you, Mister?”

“It doesn’t matter about those Indians, Marshall. If they hadn’t died in this movie they most surely would have been scalped in some other one.”

With that Matt pulls out his gun and shoots dead the Cowboy…

“I hate ‘B’-grade Westerns,” says the Marshall as he rides off to shoot more Indians.