Rossen""s shattering experience of naming names in the 1950s HUAC hearings (after being blacklisted and then recanting two years later) influenced his writing for this film - the low-life, bruised film hero is both self-hating and cowardly.Earp joked: "Looks like we could move this target clear to the next county and they""d still be shootin"" even!" A sudden-death shoot-out was conducted with a tossed coin, and another tie ensued.However, due to stiff defenses put up by the Starkiller Base and the First Order""s TIE fighters, the Resistance forces seemed doomed.As a result of increased publicity for the parade due to the film, national TV coverage began for the parade in 1948, and it became a major national American institution.