Alias Smith and Jones called the Devil's Hole Gang, loosely based on the Hole in the Wall Gang from which Cassidy recruited most of his outlaws. To lend them an element of audience sympathy, Heyes and Curry were presented as men who avoided bloodshed (though Curry did once kill in self-defense) and always were attempting to reform and seek redemption for their "prior ways". The names "Smith" and "Jones" originated from a comment in the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", when before one of their final hold-ups, the characters are outside a bank in Bolivia and Sundance turns to Butch and
Harvey Logan gunfighter Doc Holliday's memorial. Curry appears as a character in "Mr American" by George MacDonald Fraser. The novel, set in 1909, uses the controversy surrounding Curry's death to portray him as surviving the shootout near Parachute and later tracking the novel's protagonist, Mark Franklin, to England, where Curry attempts to kill Franklin. Phillip Pine played Kid Curry in the episode "Kid Curry" on the TV series "Tales of Wells Fargo" (1959). Ted Cassidy played Curry in the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Ben Murphy portrayed a fictionalised Kid Curry in the 1970s television show "Alias Smith and