Packet 3: Tossup 14

In his 1978 adaptation of three stories by this author, The Green Room, François Truffaut (“frawn-swah troo-FOH”) cast himself (15[1])as a World War I veteran who writes obituaries. Daphne Oram was uncredited for her electronic soundscape for an adaptation of a novella by this author, such as over a wide shot in which a girl rubs a turtle while looking across a lake. A rich (15[1])Lebanese heir uses the protagonist’s screenplay based on a novel by this author to cover up their affair in Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Line of Beauty. A film inspired by a novella (15[1])by this author opens with a shot of trembling (15[1])hands clutching a (*) rosary as a girl sings the folk song “O Willow Waly,” after (10[1])which the protagonist whispers, “all I want to do is save the children.” (10[1])While writing (10[1])In Cold Blood, Truman Capote co-adapted (-5[1])a novel by this author for a 1961 Jack Clayton film that stars Deborah Kerr (10[1])(“car”) as the (10[1])governess of a haunted (10[1])estate. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the gothic horror film The Innocents (10[1])is based on what author’s novel The Turn of the Screw? ■END■ (10[2])

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