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In this film, a character persuades his captor to prop open the window of a hot hotel room, then bum- rushes him. A character in this film charms his host at dinner by telling her that he once knew a (-5[1])captain’s daughter in San Francisco who had green eyes that showed “all the colors of the sea.” A thunderstorm breaks a three-year drought at the climax of this film, during which the antagonist decides not to drop down to give his (*) gang a clear shot. Elmore Leonard adapted one of his own stories into the screenplay of this film, in which Glenn Ford plays against type as a (10[1])charming bandit. Peter Fonda played a railroad bounty hunter in this film’s remake by James Mangold. For 10 points, in what Delmer Daves (10[1])Western does a rancher escort Ben Wade to a prison train? (10[1])■END■

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