Packet 6: Tossup 3

This screenwriter wrote a scene in which a man repeatedly asks a woman, “how did you come to be lost?” While casting a script he wrote that retells Madame Bovary in County Kerry, this screenwriter told a depressed Robert Mitchum that he’d pay for Mitchum’s burial if Mitchum waited to commit suicide until after filming it. (15[1])John Hurt’s breakthrough role was a villain on the receiving end of this screenwriter’s line “it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but (15[1])for Wales!” This screenwriter of Ryan’s Daughter and The Mission added homoerotic subtext to a 1962 treatment based (15[1])on the memoir (-5[1])(*) Seven Pillars of Wisdom. (10[1])This writer’s line (-5[1])“I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”, which appears in a script that excises the Common Man from his original (10[1])play, was delivered by Paul (10[1])Scofield. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this screenwriter of Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, and the Thomas More drama A Man for (10[1])All Seasons. ■END■ (0[1])

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