Packet 6: Tossup 3

This film’s screenplay, which its star called the best he’d ever read, was the best-known by once-blacklisted writer Marguerite Roberts. After watching this film’s villain making a getaway, the protagonist remarks that “looking back is a bad habit.” A then-unknown Karen Carpenter was nearly cast as this film’s heroine by its star, who refused Tom Parker’s demand for Elvis to receive top billing above him for a role he then offered to a different guitarist. This film’s protagonist shouts (*) “fill your hands!” (10[1])before its climactic shootout, which (10[1])pits him against four men (10[1])on horseback. This film’s director Henry Hathaway frequently clashed on set (10[1])with Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, and its star, who won his (10[2])only Oscar for playing a man who rescues Mattie (-5[1])Ross (10[1])from a snake bite (10[2])and wears an (10[1])eyepatch. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])what 1968 western stars (10[1])John Wayne as Marshal Rooster Cogburn? ■END■ (10[1])

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