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This screenwriter wrote a scene in which a man repeatedly asks a woman, “how did you come to be lost?” While casting a script he wrote that retells Madame Bovary in County Kerry, this screenwriter told a depressed Robert Mitchum that he’d pay for Mitchum’s burial if Mitchum waited to commit suicide until after filming it. John Hurt’s breakthrough role was a villain on the receiving end of this screenwriter’s line “it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Wales!” This screenwriter of Ryan’s Daughter and The Mission added homoerotic subtext to a 1962 treatment based on the memoir (*) Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This writer’s line “I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”, which appears in a script that excises the Common Man from his original (10[1])play, was delivered by Paul Scofield. For 10 points, name this screenwriter of Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, and the Thomas More drama A Man for All Seasons. ■END■

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