Round 7: Tossup 5

In a film written by this screenwriter, a colonel describes Judas as “a man I admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform.” After getting the go-ahead from JFK, John Frankenheimer asked this writer to draft the screenplay for Seven Days in May. This writer, who narrates the intro of Phantom of the Paradise, drew on his childhood in Binghamton for a script in which a man warns a boy that some day, “there won’t be any more merry-go-rounds, no more cotton candy.” At the end of a script by this author, a cryptographer breaks the fourth wall to say (*) “sooner or later we’ll, all of us, be on the menu.” In a script by this writer of the original draft of The Planet of the Apes, the sight of a jack-in-the-box leads a man to tell his son to (10[1])“wish it (-5[1])to the cornfield.” A bookworm bank teller accidentally breaks his glasses after a nuclear bombing in this writer’s (10[1])script for the episode “Time Enough at Last.” For 10 points, name this screenwriter who created The Twilight Zone. ■END■

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