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This director had a child stagger back in response to a withering glare after the line “he thinks you should bear me on your shoulder.” A long take moves between whispering audience members in a mime show conceived by this director and played in part by Patrick Troughton. At the opening of a film by this director, four men bear a coffin at the top of the highest tower before suddenly vanishing. Leslie Banks played the (*) Chorus in a Technicolor film by this director ordered as a morale booster from Winston Churchill. (10[1])William Walton scored a trio of films by this director, one of which begins with the voiceover, “this is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind” and is set in a labyrinthine version of Elsinore. For 10 points, what director starred in his own (10[1])adaptation of (10[1])Hamlet? ■END■

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