DELETED SCENES 4

Here's a scene where, after Ross is "robbed" of his boodle by Sheriff Dillon, he's met by one of Dillon's cronies and given a train ticket out of town. However, as he's about to enter the train car, he bumps into the Chicago thug Dillon spoke to on the phone and is escorted off the train car by this formidibale man...

DELETED SCENES 3

Here's a big one--three and a half pages of Sheriff Lou Dillon checking up on Ross Thompson. This he does by telephoning a Chicago number he'd seen in McCoy's black book, which he'd found when checking out his hotel room after his murder. This was changed to Lou finding who he believed to be the real killer, in that same little book. The decision to cut this scene was mostly based on not wanting to introduce yet another character at this late point in the story. Also, it seemed like a ridiculous long-shot that he could somehow find out if Ross was indeed the killer by calling up this number in Chicago. The Chicago thug that's on the other end of the line would have ended up coming all the way down to Big Spring to punish Ross for leaving town and cheating the Syndicate out of their money. Not believable either, too much trouble for a gambling loss. So, I just opted to cut this whole scenario out in the end.

DELETED SCENES 2

This is one of those annoying deleted scenes where you go, " What? But most of this was IN the movie." Here's a page that was only slightly altered--in that there was no "other woman" in Sam's life at this point. He was supposed to have been visiting an older widow (for many years) who inhabited the hotel. This was cut, again, because I wanted to use it for the second volume instead.

DELETED SCENES

Okay, DAY ONE of our deleted scenes from The Cavalier. Today's scenes concern 1) the Watkinson family of oil workers (a close up of the whole bunch that I just didn't care for) and 2) Willa's attempt to introduce Sam to her academic/writer friends. I had deicded--much later on in production--to cut it for it was much too early for a scene like this. I realized that it would be much better for the second volume of Sam Hill books (1927-1929) when Willa is attending college in California. I couldn't find the entire pages fo this sequence, so only small pieces of it remain...

SKETCH MADNESS

Here's where I began to get bored with drawing pages on Sam Hill. As I frittered my time away (most likely for that whole day of drawing), surrounding my giant-sized thumbnail with Sam and Nick sketches instead... with a cameo by Lewis Trondheim's "The Nightshirt".