Packet 9: Tossup 4

This film’s male lead pretends he is Will Hay and Sherlock Holmes while rummaging through the props of a magician called “The Great Doppo.” This film introduced two characters who are forced to share a bed in a maid’s room (15[1])and use sugar cubes to visualize the wrongful dismissal of Wally Hammond. (15[1])This film criticizes its country’s passivity towards continental affairs via a shot of a barrister dying while waving a white flag. (15[1])This film, which was the last its director made for Gainsborough Studios (15[2])before moving to (*) Hollywood to work for David O. Selznick, invents the (10[1])fictional country of “Bandrika.” In this 1938 film, the Test cricket (10[1])fanatics Charters and Caldicott travel (10[2])with characters played by (10[1])Margaret (10[1])Lockwood and Michael (10[1])Redgrave on a train to London. For 10 points, name this Alfred Hitchcock (10[1])film concerning (10[1])an old woman’s disappearance. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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