Packet 5: Tossup 10

Warner Bros. and this company co-produced None But the Brave, the only movie directed by Frank Sinatra. Due to legal pressure from this company, Sea Shepherd renamed a vessel after Brigitte Bardot. This company’s employees justified their 1940s unionization by making the film Those Who Make Tomorrow, and then occupied (15[1])its studios during months-long strikes quelled by US Army tanks. This company distributed a 1964 anthology based on ghost stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan. (15[3])Luigi Cozzi spliced wartime newsreels into his colorized Italian version of a film by this company, whose most (-5[1])famous (*) sound effect was created by rubbing a resin-coated (10[1])glove on a contrabass string. One of this company’s films, which was re-edited (10[1])in America (-5[1])to center on a reporter (10[1])played by Raymond Burr, (10[2])pioneered the “suitmation” (10[1])technique used in tokusatsu movies. For 10 points, Eiji Tsuburaya (10[1])and Ishirō Honda created what company’s kaiju, (10[1])like Mothra and Godzilla? ■END■ (10[1])

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