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In a film by this director, a bomb explodes midway through a bedtime story about three kittens who lost their mittens. French critics praised this director’s film about an orphan who hunts a diamond with the gentleman smuggler Jeremy Fox. This director showed a woman reacting to the discovery of her suicided husband by dialing the phone and coolly stating “this is Tom Duncan’s widow.” MGM made this director cast a white lead for a film in which a mob tries to lynch a mechanic played by Spencer Tracy. (*) Lee Marvin throws boiling coffee (10[1])in Gloria Grahame’s face (10[1])in a noir by this director that follows Dave Bannion, a fired cop hunting his wife’s killers. For 10 points, what director of Fury and The Big Heat is better known for German films like M? ■END■ (10[1])

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