Round 9: Tossup 4

This film’s male lead pretends he is Will Hay and Sherlock Holmes while rummaging through the props of a magician called “The Great Doppo.” This film introduced two characters who are forced to share a bed in a maid’s room and use sugar cubes to visualize the wrongful dismissal of Wally Hammond. This film criticizes its country’s passivity towards continental affairs via a shot of a barrister dying while waving a white flag. This film, which was the last its director made for Gainsborough Studios (15[1])before moving to (*) Hollywood to work for David O. Selznick, invents the fictional country of “Bandrika.” In this 1938 film, the Test cricket fanatics Charters and Caldicott travel with characters played by Margaret Lockwood and Michael (10[1])Redgrave on a train to London. For 10 points, name this Alfred Hitchcock (10[1])film concerning an old woman’s disappearance. ■END■ (10[2])

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