He took elitism badly in film (4,4,2,3)
I believe the answer is:
some like it hot
'film' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'he took elitism badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong order).
'he'+'took'+'elitism'='hetookelitism'
'hetookelitism' is an anagram of 'SOME LIKE IT HOT'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for some like it hot that I've seen before include "Cross-dressing comedy film" , "Film with Curtis, Lemmon, and Monroe" , "Nineteen fifty nine Marilyn Monroe film" , "Curtis/Lemmon film" , "Billy Wilder 1 movie, 1959" .)