 James Stewart (I) (qv) agreed to do the film and suggested to the  producers that they offer the part of Harley to his good friend,  Henry Fonda (qv). Fonda read the script and agreed to do it but he  had one suggestion. In the opening sequence, when the two ride to  Cheyenne, his character had no dialog in the script. Fonda  innocently asked to give his character something to say. The writer,  James Lee Barrett (qv), came up with the speech Fonda gives. For  years after the film was released, the sign that hung in the club  listing the names of the girls hung in Barretts home as a memento.