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This place titles a film in which a middle-aged philanderer gives a chorus girl $25,000 to stay away from his son, who turns out to have dumped her weeks ago. Little Joe travels to this place after a tornado strikes in Vincente Minnelli’s first film, which features Ethel Waters’ rendition of “Taking a Chance on Love.” Don Ameche’s character is directed to this place at the end of a 1943 Ernst Lubitsch movie. (15[1])A rocky amphitheater in this place is the site of a trial prosecuted by a xenophobic Bostonian (-5[1])who shares an actor with a (*) brain surgeon. This place is black and white in an otherwise Technicolor film in which it sits at the top of a giant marble escalator. For 10 points, (10[1])David Niven played an airman who refuses to enter what place in the Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death? ■END■ (10[1])

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