Round 4: Tossup 17

This author’s entire review of the Humphrey Bogart movie Marked Woman is about how Tammany Hall politicians are like medieval lords, because he misparsed the American pronunciation of “futile” as “feudal.” This author, who often lambasted films by his yachting buddy Alexander Korda, was sued by 20th Century Fox for a review decrying Shirley Temple’s “dubious coquetry” in John Ford’s Wee Willie Winkie. A broken gramophone loops the phrase “I love you” at the end of a Boulting Brothers adaptation of a novel by this author. An ex-asylum patient finds film reels in a slice of cake in a bird’s nest in a novel by this author adapted by (*) Fritz Lang. The Fallen Idol was this author’s (10[1])first of three screenplays for Carol Reed. Terence Rattigan and this author adapted one of his novels for a film starring Richard Attenborough as the razor-wielding gangster Pinkie Brown. For 10 points, name this author of Ministry of Fear, The Third Man, and Brighton Rock. ■END■ (0[1])

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