OK, it seemed too good to be true, so I decided to look it up on Google. Disappointed in that it is not a real-life photo, but from the movie Cimarron, which won for Best Picture for the Academy Awards for 1930-31. (It beat out Public Enemy and Little Caesar. Sure, Richard Dix had it all over James Cagney and Edward G Robinson).
"His handling of the riff-raff in Osage, and in particular the evil Lon Yountis (you gotta love these names!) is priceless. The leading men of the town chose Yancey to give a sermon at the first meeting of the Osage Methodist Church. Since the town hasn’t got a proper house of worship built yet, the meeting is conducted in Grat Gotch’s Hall of Chance, a gambling tent – the only place in town big enough to house the event. Yancey shows up in the guise of a pistol-packin’ padre, Bible in one hand and six-shooters firmly holstered. In the middle of his sermon, he must gun down Lon who stands in the back and tries to shoot him first. One watches these scenes with an open jaw…"
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