What is the title of Quentin Tarantino's segment in Four Rooms?

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The title of Quentin Tarantino’s segment in Four Rooms is “The Man from Hollywood.” Four Rooms is a 1995 anthology film set in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor on New Year’s Eve, with Tim Roth playing Ted, a bellhop whose night unfolds across four connected segments.

Tarantino wrote and directed the penthouse chapter, which follows Chester Rush, a famous filmmaker surrounded by friends and celebrity-world decadence. The group asks Ted for seemingly random objects, including a block of wood, nails, twine, ice, food, and a hatchet. Ted brings a meat cleaver instead and becomes the referee for a grotesque wager.

The segment reworks the premise of “The Man from the South,” an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode based on a Roald Dahl story. In Tarantino’s version, Norman bets his little finger against Chester’s vintage Chevrolet Chevelle that he can ignite a Zippo lighter ten times in succession. A failed first attempt produces the segment’s famously abrupt punchline.

“The Missing Ingredient,” “The Wrong Man,” and “The Misbehavers” are the other three segments, directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, and Robert Rodriguez.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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