Round 6: Tossup 12

This film presents a scene in which three characters descend the cellar stairs with a candle as a two-dimensional cross-section, with the top left of the screen completely black. A character in this Stanley Cortez-shot film muses “it’s a hard world for little things” after an owl attacks a rabbit. A woman’s hair floats amid seaweed in an (15[1])(*) underwater (10[1])shot in this film in which she is (10[1])tied to a Model T. In this film, a girl sings a song about a “pretty fly” as she passes a spiderweb and a frog in the moonlight. In this film, Lillian Gish joins in on the hymn “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” while she sits in a rocking chair with a shotgun. For 10 points, in what Charles Laughton film do “HATE” and “LOVE” tattoos appear on the knuckles of Robert Mitchum? ■END■

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