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In a neorealism-influenced film set in this city, a fleeing murderer crawls like a rat along a wharf then falls trying to shimmy up a rope onto a ship. In a brutal scene set in this city, a character tries to defend herself with a bottle, which is smashed into a mirror as the screen fades to black. Police find a dead body carrying pneumonic plague in a film noir shot on location in this city, Panic in the (-5[1])Streets. Warner Bros censors mandated that a film set in this set city alter sexually-charged shots in which (*) Kim Hunter descends a (10[1])staircase. For a film set in this city, a method actor wore a sweaty, skin-tight T-shirt to reprise a role he (10[1])originated on Broadway. For 10 points, Eliza Kazan directed Marlon Brando bellowing “Stella!” in what city in A Streetcar Named Desire? (10[1])■END■

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