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 (10[1])pits him against four men 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 only Oscar for playing a man who rescues Mattie (-5[1])Ross from a snake bite and wears an (10[1])eyepatch. (10[2])For 10 points, what 1968 western stars John Wayne as Marshal Rooster Cogburn? ■END■

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