Round 1: Tossup 18

An adaptation of a work by this author includes a two-minute-long crane shot in which the camera tracks a group of men robbing a hat factory. Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film as a student was (15[1])based on a work by this (15[1])author, (15[1])to which a screenplay (15[1])co-written by John Huston and Richard Brooks adds a storyline about an insurance agent using a green handkerchief (15[1])as a lead to investigate a murder. This author said that the “only good picture ever made out of a story of [his]” was that film noir by Robert Siodmak (“see-ODD-mack”), which starred (15[2])(*) Ava Gardner as Kitty and Burt Lancaster in his debut role. (10[1])A director’s bet about adapting this author’s “worst story” led to a film in which a woman tells a man, “you know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.” (10[1])William Faulkner co-adapted a story by this friend of Gary Cooper into the first Howard Hawks film to pair Lauren Bacall with Humphrey Bogart. For 10 points, (10[1])name this author of To Have and Have Not and “The Killers.” ■END■

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