Round 5: Tossup 18

In a monologue by this writer, a G.I. tells his love interest, “Europe was a going brothel long before we came to town.” Herb Stempel answered On the Waterfront instead of a film by this writer to throw his last appearance on Twenty-One. This writer negotiated creative control over a film in which the protagonist runs to a payphone after ranting “You don’t like her. My mother don’t like (15[1])her. She’s a dog. And I’m a fat, ugly man.” This screenwriter of The Americanization of Emily adapted his own classic teleplay for a (*) 1955 romantic comedy in which Ernest Borgnine plays a butcher from the Bronx. For 10 points, what screenwriter of Marty later wrote “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore” in his script for Network? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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