Packet 10: Tossup 4

A character with this surname who wears a cowboy hat jokes that he’s “going to bring the Beatles back to Hamburg” in a film whose cameos by directors include Sam Fuller and Nicholas Ray as gangsters. Nino Rota’s score kicks in as a character with this surname stabs a man who cheated at (15[1])poker in a 1960 film directed by René Clément (15[1])(“ruh-NAY clay-MAW”). Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill man played by Bruno Ganz, is initiated into crime by a character (15[1])with this surname (15[1])played by Dennis Hopper in Wim (15[1])Wenders’s film The American (15[2])(*) Friend. (10[2])Playing a character with this surname in Purple Noon made a star out of Alain Delon. (10[1])In (10[1])another film, (10[1])the camera pans across a character with this surname embracing the bloody corpse of a man he murdered with an oar. In a 1999 Anthony Minghella film set (10[1])on the coasts of Italy, a character with this surname steals the identity of Dickie Greenleaf. For 10 points, what surname titles a Patricia Highsmith series about a “talented” con artist? ■END■

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