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After viewing The Third Man, this director sent Carol Reed a bubble level to help keep his cameras straight. Laurence Olivier credited this director with teaching him how to act on screen despite his reputation for calling for as many as 40 takes by simply saying “again!” This director took an entire day to film Ruth Chatterton burning a letter for an adaption of a Sinclair Lewis novel. Before making Citizen Kane, (*) Gregg Toland helped develop this director’s style of long takes and deep-focus photography in Dead End and The Westerner. (10[1])Harold Russell, an actual wounded veteran, starred in a film by this director (10[1])in which an infantryman returns home from WWII having lost his hands. For 10 points, name this director of The Best Years of Our Lives. ■END■ (10[1])

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