Top Gun

Credits ended with a sign indicating Casper, Wyoming, home of 1,002 law-abiding citizens, and the camera follows leading man Sterling Hayden into town, whereupon we learn his backstory at the graveyard, visited by Sheriff Bat Davis (James Millican), Ray Nazarro directing, in Top Gun, 1955.

Unjustly known about his hometown of Casper, Wyoming as a killer, Rick Martin (Sterling Hayden), returned to look into the death of his mother, deals with upstart Lem (Rod Taylor) and top citizens before visiting his one remaining friend, innkeeper O’Hara (Regis Toomey) in Top Gun, 1955.

Gunslinger Rick (Sterling Hayden), who came home to Casper to warn of an impending raid by bandits, visits the ranch of his recently deceased mother, which is now owned by crooked Canby (William Bishop), who is also engaged to his ex-girlfriend Laura (Karen Booth), in Top Gun, 1955.