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Here are 20 short synopses of 20 movies set in six different cities. Name the movies. The first five people to get all the answers right will each get a copy of my new book, Twisted Travels. Which, coincidentally, includes these cities.

2. A successful director of movie comedies wants to make a movie about the poor and the homeless in Depression-era America. His producers point out that he knows nothing about poverty, so he sets off to learn about it first-hand. He disguises himself as a hobo and goes off on his adventure. He winds up being jailed for a murder he did not commit.

12. She’s a Venetian aristocrat, he’s a soldier with the occupying Austrian forces. They meet at the opera. She becomes obsessed with him, and he turns out to be a heel. The Italian war of independence begins.

19. Four friends find themselves being tailed by a mysterious four-fingered Japanese hitman, a Chinese gang, and a priest. To unravel the mystery they go to a convent in Baguio and discover that there’s something in those holy wafers. Nuns, hitmen, and dragon ladies burst into song in this comedy-musical from the 1980s. 

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