The ending (spoiler alert) How did Quigley know...
Spoiler alert...
How did Quigley know that guy had a gun under the counter for the bounty on his head?
He didn't know the guy had a gun, the bounty everyone knew about by then.
shareOh, thanks. :) I was just curious, when he asked him his name, and he replied, "Roy Cobb." So he already knew about the bounty anyway, as everybody in the area did?
sharePlus the fact that there's no sense in advertising who you are when it's common knowledge that the main rancher in the area is dead, and you're the one who killed him. Not like he had a driver's liscense and SS card to show. Ha!
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He heard the clicks of the cocking gun. It wasn't exactly silent you know.
I thought he said Roy Cobb cause Cora had walked in, she'd been calling him Roy the whole movie, so he finally decided to answer to it. He had no clue about the gun I bet, the wanted poster was hid.
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I just watched this. You can tell he hears the gun cock and then Cora interrupts, thus giving him time to come up with another name.
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I thought he said Roy Cobb cause Cora had walked in, she'd been calling him Roy the whole movie, so he finally decided to answer to it. He had no clue about the gun I bet, the wanted poster was hid.
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The sound of the gun cocking was put in by the foley artist (sound effects)
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Yes- most firearms of that era could be silently cocked by holding the trigger to the rear as the hammer is pulled back. Not a safe thing to do, but if silence is essential it can be done.
shareThe sound of the gun cocking was put in by the foley artist (sound effects)
Uh...right. BUT the sound effect was put there for a reason in the contest of the story. Watch Quigley's reaction just as we hear the click. Sure he heard it. It was probably scripted.
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The sound of the gun cocking was put in by the foley artist (sound effects)
Pretty irrelevant, wouldn't you say? Shooting the bucket at a thousand yards or more, the audience is made to believe Quigley actually hits the bucket when it pops up and down in the dust. Obviously, that effect was created, it was not the actual bullet.
Same goes for the sound of cocking the handgun. Nobody cares if this was recorded on sound stage while shooting, or inserted later by the foley artist.
My ten cents: Quigley saw Cora and he heard the cocking of the gun. Remember, in the shoot out he stated that he had no use fort hand guns, he never said he didn't know how to use them. And boy, did he know how to handle them. So safe to assume he was no stranger to the sound of a handgun being cocked.
Also, they had to rap it up. The Roy Cobb joke was used here to smoothly finish the story and fade to black.