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This film’s director said that Last Year at Marienbad inspired a sequence in which a man in a mask is garroted in a dark topiary garden. This film pays homage to North by Northwest (15[1])in a scene in which a helicopter drops grenades on a flower truck. In this film, a chess grandmaster checkmates his opponent so that he can report to his boss, who owns a tank of Siamese fighting fish. A character in this film triggers a booby-trapped briefcase that fills a (*) train cabin with smoke. Kurt Weill collaborator Lotte Lenya wears a shoe with a poisoned blade (10[1])in this film as Rosa Klebb, AKA “Number 3.” In this film, Red Grant boards the Orient Express to carry out an assassination for SPECTRE. For 10 points, in what sequel to Dr. No does James Bond aid a Soviet “defector”? ■END■ (10[1])

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