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[Harker]

46. Miles Hood Swarthout was on the set for rewrites.

When he said "that was all Don Siegel", I take that as reliable, especially as the song, which describes a bird's intentional plunge from its branch into the river below, foreshadows J.B. Books's decision to go out shooting rather than dying in bed from cancer.

Lauren Bacall's character was playing that piece on the piano when Wayne chimed in, so there was evident preplanning and direction.

I don't know much of anything about John Wayne as a person, though I'd be surprised if I were to find him to have been an operetta afficionado.