Dennis Christopher wears an US Time Hopalong Cassidy

The dial reads Hopalong Cassidy in white script, with William Boyd's name in parentheses beneath it and a small portrait of Boyd in full cowboy black, the hour numerals in gold around a dark blue face. It is a US Time novelty watch from the early 1950s, the licensed children's piece tied to the Hopalong Cassidy craze, and Fade to Black gives it a clear close-up on Eric Binford's wrist.

Vernon Zimmerman's 1980 film follows Binford, a lonely film-warehouse worker who lives inside old movies, quoting them from memory and eventually killing people while costumed as his favorite screen characters. One of those characters is Hopalong Cassidy, and Binford dresses as Boyd's cowboy for one of the murders. Dennis Christopher plays him as twitchy and earnest rather than menacing.