Round 3: Tossup 8

A director with this surname played the classical scholar Homer Thrace, who travels to Piraeus and meets a prostitute played by his real-life wife Melina Mercouri, in his film Never on Sunday. A song by a musician with this surname plays over the end credits of The Darjeeling Limited. The narrated lines “There are eight million stories in [the title place]. This has been one of them” end (15[1])a 1948 film by a director with this surname (15[1])with a style and title inspired by Weegee photos. That American filmmaker with this surname is best known for directing a sequence in which a man wears ballet slippers and an (*) umbrella is used to catch debris. After directing the noir films Night and the City and The Naked City, that filmmaker with this surname was blacklisted and moved to France, where he directed a film built around a dead-silent, half-hour-long jewel heist. For 10 points, (10[1])give this surname shared by the singer of “Les Champs-Élysées” and his father, the director of Rififi. ■END■

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