Round 6: Tossup 15

Multiple exposures are featured throughout an adaptation of this work whose most enduring shot depicts the flowing wedding veil of a woman played by Abel Gance’s (“gonss’s”) wife Marguerite. Luis Buñuel (“boon-yoo-EL”) shot Un Chien Andalou (“un shee-AWN on-dah-LOO”) after quitting as assistant director for that 1928 adaptation of this work by Jean Epstein. The (15[1])climax of a 1960 film based on this work shot in 15 days for AIP cuts between a close-up on a woman’s eyes and bizarre portraits lit by lightning. In its director’s usual fashion, footage of the burning sequence that ends that film based on this (*) story was reused in some of his later films. Richard Matheson adapted this story for the first film in a horror series including The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death. For 10 points, name this story that inspired the first of Roger Corman’s eight Poe adaptations, which stars Vincent Price as Roderick. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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