Round 4: Tossup 1

In a 2022 film set in this subnational region, a lichen grows both under the protagonist’s red jacket and on the rare flower she observes daily. Spanish borrowed the title of a film set mainly in this region as the word for “cardigan.” A director from this region was editor, (15[1])DOP, and composer for his films Bait and Enys Men (“ennis main”). Despite likening a book set in this region to “drowning in your own vomit,” an American director adapted it into a 1971 film whose 20-year-old lead actress was terrified by his constant drunken fighting with the cast. In that film set in this home region of (*) Mark Jenkin, the wife of an American mathematician seems to enjoy being raped by a home invader. David O. Selznick wanted a 1940 film set in this region to end with the letter “R” spelled out by the smoke of the burning de Winter estate. For 10 points, (10[1])Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (10[1])and the Hitchcock films Jamaica Inn and Rebecca are based on novels set in what South West English county? ■END■

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