Round 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!” before its climactic shootout, which pits him against four men on horseback. This film’s director Henry Hathaway frequently clashed on set with Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, and its star, who won his (10[1])only Oscar for playing a man who rescues Mattie Ross from a snake bite and wears an eyepatch. For 10 points, what 1968 western stars John Wayne as Marshal Rooster Cogburn? ■END■ (10[1])

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