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 climax of a 1960 film based on this work shot in 15 (15[1])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 (10[1])this story that inspired the first of Roger Corman’s eight Poe adaptations, which stars Vincent Price as Roderick. ■END■ (10[1])

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