Packet 5: Tossup 5

In this film, a man claims that “a good love scene should be about something else” as he cuts a grapefruit with a knife that he straightened with his hands. After beating a football star on the side of the road, a man in this film ponders the lines “I was born when she kissed me, I died when she left (15[1])me, I lived a few weeks while (15[1])she loved me.” This film removes the Tom Ripley-esque (15[1])con plot from its source novel by (*) Dorothy B. Hughes. At an eerie dinner party in this film, the protagonist has his friend use his wife to demonstrate how to strangle a passenger in a car. Gloria Grahame co-starred as a witness-turned-fiance in this film during a colorful divorce with director Nicholas Ray. For 10 points, in what noir does Humphrey Bogart play a violent screenwriter? ■END■

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