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It is a sad truth that the visual media have a history of neglecting to prize that which lies at the
bottom of any of their creations, however well received and whether deservedly so or not: the written
word. This has likely never been more so the case than with one of Hollywood's all-time-classics, the
film that reached third place in the American Film Institute's (AFI) call for its members to vote for the
ten best American films of all time in 1977, and second place in AFI's repeated voting in 1998:
Casablanca.1 Not only are the names of credited screenwriters Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein,
and Howard Koch likely not to be known by the majority of the audience, but much less the fact that
the film is based on the stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's, written by Murray Burnett and Joan
Alison, even though they, too, received screen credit. This, however, might be attributed to the fact
that the play has to this date only been produced twice: as Casablanca in 1946......

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