Round 3: Tossup 18

A character in this film insists that her plan is to be “proper” to a love interest who tells her “nobody ever lies about being lonely.” Grainy historical stock footage is cut into a sequence in this film that begins with an explosion shaking a cafeteria. A character in this film is shot dead in a golf course sand trap for ignoring a guard’s order to halt. A character in this film tells a worker at the New Congress Club that he quit (*) boxing after blinding his sparring partner. In this film, a character does a jazzy bugle improvisation on “Reveille” before a bar fight breaks out over Fatso’s anti-Italian slurs. In this film, (10[1])waves crash over Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster as they (10[1])kiss in the surf. For 10 points, (10[1])what adaptation of a James Jones novel is set on a Hawaiian military base? ■END■

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