Round 1: Tossup 18

An adaptation of a work by this author includes a two-minute-long crane shot in which the camera tracks a group of men robbing a hat factory. Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film as a student was based on a work by this author, (15[1])to which a screenplay co-written by John Huston and Richard Brooks adds a storyline about an insurance agent using a green handkerchief as a lead to investigate a murder. This author said that the “only good picture ever made out of a story of [his]” was that film noir by Robert Siodmak (“see-ODD-mack”), which starred (*) Ava Gardner as Kitty and Burt Lancaster in his debut role. A director’s bet about adapting this author’s “worst story” led to a film in which a woman tells a man, “you know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.” William Faulkner co-adapted a story by this friend of Gary Cooper into the first Howard Hawks film to pair Lauren Bacall with Humphrey Bogart. For 10 points, name this author of To Have and Have Not and “The Killers.” ■END■

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