sentences:  He was more interested in exploring a male friendship along the lines of "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) with elements of comic Westerns like "Cat Ballou" (1965).He wrote a draft of the script which was set in the same locations as the poem, the Rio Grande and Alaska, and took it to Hollywood in 1972.However he encountered resistance from Hollywood agents, who believed "no one wants cold scripts", referring to the box office disappointment of movies like "Ice Palace" (1960) and "Ice Station Zebra" (1968).