Round 4: Tossup 21

In a homoerotic slow-motion scene in this film, a boy pulls on his sweater while gazing at a gymnast twirling on a high bar. Many scenes in this film, such as one in which the protagonist growls like a tiger while wrestling naked with an unnamed girl after stealing a motorcycle, feature a Congolese choir’s recording of “Missa Luba.” This film’s director slaps its star during an audition for its lead role in the meta climax of its pseudo-sequel, O Lucky Man!. One of this film’s eight chapters ends with the protagonist in tears after being brutally caned on the buttocks. This film’s climax, in which the “Crusaders” engage in a (*) shootout with the “Whips” and their families, earned it an X certificate. Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct inspired this Palme d’Or-winning Lindsay Anderson film, (10[2])which landed its star the role of Alex in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. For 10 points, the schoolboy Mick Travis is played by Malcolm McDowell in what 1968 film titled for a Kipling poem? ■END■

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