Word: casablanca
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...Mullah. As Churchill's personal chief of staff during World War II, "Pug" Ismay knew, Churchill later wrote, "exactly how my mind was working from day to day." He patiently stayed up night after night, adjusting himself to Churchill's "nocturnal hours, went with Churchill to Casablanca, Cairo, Moscow, Teheran and Yalta. "The man with the oilcan," top Allied leaders called him. "When he's around, the wheels turn...
...Philip G. Epstein, 42, who, with his twin brother Julius, made up one of Hollywood's top scenarist teams, chiefly as adapters of plays (The Man Who Came to Dinner), novels (Chicken Every Sunday) and short stories (My Foolish Heart), Oscar winners in 1943 for their screenplay of Casablanca; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
They can afford to kill off Peter Lorre in the first fifteen minutes of Casablanca. That's how good it is. Ten years of flashier and more expensive movies leave this picture still on top. It is tough, cynical, sentimental, and maudlin, a slick movie about refugees and black marketers that somehow is better for its slickness...
...Casablanca has Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains and Sidney Greenstreet and a silly and improbably story about a tough guy saloon keeper who helps the girl he loves--and her husband--to get out from under some polite, choke-collared Nazis...
...Casablanca, mobs rushed the polling places, and heaved paving blocks. Before election day was over, six Moroccans were dead from police bullets, the polling places were deserted, the election was a flop, and the French moved in Senegalese troops to seal off the native quarter...