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For a film mostly set in this country, Daryl F. Zanuck insisted on casting Robert Evans, providing the title of The Kid Stays in the Picture. Errol Flynn was wrongly reported to have been killed in this country during a trip as a journalist. Orson Welles left a Joris Ivens propaganda film titled for [this country’s] Earth after getting into a fistfight with the primary writer. An expatriate director from this country spent WWII making documentaries for MoMA after being unable to find work in Los Angeles. This country’s post-1950s policy of courting Hollywood producers made it the filming location for (*) battle scenes in Chimes at Midnight and Spartacus. For 10 points, what country exiled the leftist director of Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel? ■END■
ANSWER: Spain [accept Reino de España, Kingdom of Spain, Second Spanish Republic, Segunda República Española or The Spanish Earth] (Robert Evans entered the film business on The Sun Also Rises.)
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