 Near the movies beginning, Maverick asks the young man wearing the  bowler hat at the poker table who claims to be a gunfighter what his  name is. He answers, "Johnny Hardin," and Maverick fumbles his chips  pretending to be scared, but then clowns around pointing his own gun  at the youth. The real John Wesley Hardin (qv) was a notoriously  fast, volatile and deadly gunfighter of the old west who shot and  killed over 40 men before being shot in the back of the head and  killed in 1895.