Dead man's hand in popular culture feature the aces and eights hand as a foreshadowing of death. In "Stagecoach" (1939), the hand is held by Luke Plummer (Tom Tyler), soon to be shot by the Ringo Kid (John Wayne). In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), Liberty Valance draws the hand just prior to his death. In Anthony Mann's film "Winchester '73", "Dutch" Henry lays down a full house, aces over eights, stating that he just missed a "dead man's hand." In the 1941 Western "The Badlands of Dakota", Wild Bill Hickok, played by Richard Dix, is shown to be holding the aces and eights
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