Packet 3: Tossup 8

A director with this surname played the classical scholar Homer Thrace, who travels to Piraeus and meets a prostitute played by his real-life wife Melina Mercouri, in his film Never on Sunday. (15[1])A song by a musician (15[1])with this surname plays over the end credits of The Darjeeling Limited. (15[1])The narrated (-5[1])lines “There are eight million stories in [the title place]. (15[1])This has been one of them” end (15[1])a 1948 (15[1])film by a director with this surname (15[3])with a style and title inspired by Weegee photos. That American filmmaker with this surname is best known for directing a sequence in which a man wears ballet slippers and an (*) umbrella is used to catch debris. After directing the noir films Night and the City and The Naked City, that filmmaker with this surname was blacklisted (10[1])and moved to France, (10[1])where he directed a film built around a dead-silent, half-hour-long jewel heist. For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])give this surname shared by the singer of “Les Champs-Élysées” and his father, the director of Rififi. ■END■ (0[3])

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