Round 7: Tossup 4

In this film, a gambler playing cards makes eye contact with a woman on the other side of a window and mumbles “an angel in the jungle”; later, that man reveals he served in the Confederate Army under the woman’s father. A character in this film initially thinks he is hearing a wolf howling before realizing the sounds are the cries of a baby delivered by an alcoholic doctor who chugged coffee to sober up. (*) A shot in this film sees a man hold a gun with only one bullet to his companion’s head, but suddenly drop it as he is shot offscreen and non-diegetic music transitions into diegetic bugles signaling the arrival of the U.S. Army Cavalry. At the end of this film, Dallas rides to Mexico with the John Wayne-played Ringo, who had just gotten revenge by killing the three Plummer brothers. For 10 points, name this 1939 western about nine passengers in the title vehicle (10[1])traveling to Lordsburg, directed by John Ford. ■END■

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