Packet 8: Tossup 14

Many lawsuits over one of these objects have been filed by the widow of filmmaker H. B. Halicki. Poor remasters led to a decades-long fan war over the true color of one of these objects depicted in the film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Guillermo Cabrera Infante wrote the screenplay for a 1971 film in which (-5[1])a man trying to take one of these objects to San Francisco is aided by the blind (15[1])DJ “Super Soul,” played by Cleavon Little. A character played by Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys uses the name of one of these objects to refer to Warren Oates’s character in a 1971 film by (*) Monte Hellman. One of these objects (10[1])titles a film (10[1]-5[1])whose opening montage is set to “Bad to the Bone.” The protagonist of that 1981 (10[1])film (10[1])says “OK, show me” to one of these objects, before reversed footage depicts it fixing itself. Many fans (10[1])of these objects recreate one nicknamed “Eleanor” depicted in the film Gone in 60 Seconds. (10[1])For 10 points, what sort of (10[1])objects kill (10[1])people in the films Death Proof and (10[1])Christine? ■END■ (10[5])

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