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Old 07-22-2013, 03:26 PM
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Actually, Arvo Ojala is the guy in the opening scene that Matt Dillon goes up against........sort of a cameo role for him. One of the reasons he is so far away from Dillon (opening shoot out scene) is that he was very short and Arness was so tall; they needed to make the obvious difference hard to see. He was also the one who trained Arness and many other Hollywood actors.
I heard that they were messing around and intentionally did an out-take where Ojala shot Arness and Arness fell down "dead".

Robert Stack was an Olympic quality shot gunner. My wife saw a late-night interview where he was talking about his "Uncle Clark" who taught him to shoot. Turns out he didn't know his (Dutch) uncle was a movie star until he was in his early teens.

Tom Selleck was a frequent contributor to the Bub Taylor Annual Celebrity Shoot in Corona, CA that benefited Quail Unlimited. So were many stars==Leslie Easterbrook, Steve Kenally, Lou Ferrigno, etc. Slim Pickens donated lots of time to hunter safety programs as did Ben Johnson.

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