Round 10: Tossup 16

This author wrote most of the dialogue in a film with a one-take scene in which the camera films a bank robbery entirely from inside a getaway car. The King brothers paid this author a pittance for his rewrite on that film, Gun Crazy. A statue in this author’s Colorado hometown depicts him in his bathtub, (15[1])which is where he often sat (15[1])while using scissors and tape (15[2])to edit his scripts. This author’s pseudonyms included “Robert Rich” and “Sam Jackson,” (15[2])the latter of which (15[1])he used for a script whose dialogue was re-written during the shoot by Peter (*) Ustinov. In 2011, the sons of Ian McLellan Hunter and this screenwriter of Exodus petitioned for him to receive posthumous credit for the Oscar-winning story of Roman Holiday. Metallica’s song “One” is inspired by this author’s 1938 novel about a man who is confined to a hospital bed after becoming a paraplegic during World War I. (10[1])For 10 points, what blacklisted screenwriter of Spartacus wrote the novel Johnny Got His Gun? (10[1])■END■

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