Round 4: Tossup 15

Alfred Hitchcock interrupted this director’s lunch with John Ford to compliment him on a scene that reveals the heroine’s amputation, with Hitchcock saying “ah, that leg, that leg.” Roger Vivier’s (“roh-ZHAY viv-YAY’s”) metal buckle pump shoes were popularized by the star of a film by this director whose title inspired Brooke Magnanti’s pen name. William Friedkin’s casting agent got him the wrong actor from a film by this director to play the villain of The (*) French Connection. In a 1967 film, this director used the recurring sounds of horse hooves and jingling bells to symbolize a woman’s sexual desires that her doctor husband cannot satisfy. Jean-Claude (-5[1])Carrière (“car-YAIR”) co-wrote (-5[1])that film by this director, whose title puns on the daytime liaisons of the heroine, a sexually repressed (10[1])housewife. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, Catherine Deneuve (“duh-NUV”) starred in what director’s films Tristana and Belle de Jour? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Luis Buñuel (“boon-yoo-EL”) [or Luis Buñuel Portolés] (Brooke Magnanti wrote The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl using the pseudonym Belle de Jour. Friedkin meant to cast Paco Rabal after asking his agent to “get that Spanish actor from Belle de Jour,” but the agent got Fernando Rey instead.)
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