Round 9: Tossup 1

A swindler who sells “elixir” watches this character sever a rope used to ferry a barge across a river. The director of the film titled for this character wasn’t aware that “Forrest Carter,” the source novel’s author, was secretly a Klansman who wrote segregationist speeches for George Wallace. This character’s best-known line is “dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.” The DGA (15[1])added a rule against crew members firing directors and replacing them after the actor who played this character fired Philip (*) Kaufman, (10[1])partially over their mutual attraction to Sondra Locke. This character spits tobacco in nearly all of his scenes, such as before making a blood pact with the Comanche chief Ten Bears. Chief Dan George plays an old Cherokee man who helps this Missourian evade bounty hunters after the Civil War. For 10 points, a 1976 Western stars Clint Eastwood as what outlaw? ■END■

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