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It's surely a testament to the quality of Casablanca's writing that its resulting cliches are still so satisfying after all this time.


A few years back I showed that movie to someone who hadn't seen it before. They were utterly floored at how many catchphrases they already knew came out of that one screenplay.


You may be interested to learn that the Epstein brothers' names were given to Joseph McCarthy's HUAC by Warner Brothers themselves.


I'm sure the actors had a hand in making them resonate.




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