Packet 1: Tossup 7

An actor’s one-take contract resulted in this film including an accidentally out-of-focus (15[1])shot in which a man riffs on a line from “Humpty Dumpty” to emphasize that “it’s over.” In this film, a woman rues that she was “so contemptuously [underestimated]” before kissing her son near his lips. In a bizarre exchange in this (15[1])film ending with the question “you Arabic?”, a woman declares that she “was a Chinese workman” and that “Maryland’s a beautiful state,” despite being on a train in Delaware. In this film, a shooting in a kitchen results in (15[1])a stream of (*) milk spewing out of a carton. (-5[1])This film’s title character is thrice described as “the (10[1])kindest, bravest, (-5[1])warmest, most wonderful human being (10[3])I’ve ever known.” In this film’s (10[1])opening, a 360-degree pan reveals that an old woman giving a boring speech about hydrangeas is a hallucination (10[1])induced by communist scientists. (10[2])For 10 points, name this John Frankenheimer (10[2])thriller about a brainwashed Korean War veteran. ■END■ (10[2])

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