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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Carlos, McQueen's, Alfred entitled Man from the South.
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conversations.value: Man from the South: This story is being narrated by an old Englishman, who tells of an elderly man named Carlos.\nAnd Carlos offers a boastful American young man his green Cadillac if the boy can strike his Zippo lighter ten times in a row.\nThe catch is that if the lighter does not light ten times in a row, Carlos will cut off the American's left little finger.\nAfter the eighth striking of the lighter, a woman comes in the room and throws Carlos to the bed, claiming that he is mentally disturbed.\nHe has taken forty-seven fingers from various people and has lost eleven cars—and they had to leave their country because they threatened to put Carlos away for life for this behavior.\nShe had won everything Carlos owned long ago, including the car, and as she reaches for the car keys, the narrator sees her hand has only one finger and a thumb.\nThis short story was filmed as a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring Steve McQueen as the reluctant young gambler, Peter Lorre as Carlos, the man who bets his car, and Neile Adams (McQueen's real life wife) as a woman McQueen's character meets.\nIt takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada.\nThe car itself is merely described as a convertible.\nAnd we could see that although she was wearing gloves, her middle and ring finger were apparently missing.\nIn this adaptation, as part of the dramatic denouement after the woman appears and effectively aborts the bet, the gambler (McQueen) tries to relieve the stress of the young woman (Adams) by lighting her cigarette.\nThe lighter fails to start when flicked for this however, a sly indicator of how narrowly the gambler avoided losing the bet.\nThe episode was remade in 1979 as the first episode of Dahl's television anthology series Tales of the Unexpected.\nThe episode was remade again for the 1985 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents with Steven Bauer in McQueen's role, John Huston as Carlos, and Melanie Griffith (Bauer's wife at the time), Kim Novak, and Tippi Hedren (Griffith's mother).\nIn this version, the car was a Jaguar.\nAt the end, the wife was missing her pinkie and ring finger.\nIn this adaptation, the lighter successfully lights ten times.\nBut when the wife comes in, the tenth flame is blown out, Carlos is startled and drops the cleaver, nearly cutting off the young man's finger.\nAfter it is all over, he attempts to light himself a cigarette—and the lighter fails.\nAnd the wife has only her index finger left.