Round 6: Tossup 3

In 2019, the owner of a prop from this film who had hidden his family’s ownership of it for over 30 years finally revealed it after finding out his boss was a hobbyist movie producer who tried to make a pseudo-sequel to this film. Frank P. Keller won an Oscar for editing this movie, for which the Wrecking Crew’s Carol Kaye played bass on Lalo Schifrin’s jazzy song “Shifting Gears.” Peter Yates directed this film, (15[1])whose (15[1])lead actor popularized wearing a navy blue turtleneck (15[1])under a brown tweed blazer. (15[1])This film’s most famous sequence is parodied in the (*) What’s Up, Doc? scene involving two workers carrying a glass (10[1])sheet under a ladder. First-time viewers of this film often fail to notice that one of its scenes repeatedly features a green Volkswagen Beetle. William Friedkin devised the subway train scene (-5[1])in The French Connection (-5[1])to upstage this film’s San Francisco car chase. (10[1])For 10 points, name this 1968 action movie (10[1])in which Steve McQueen drives a Mustang. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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