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Agee, James | May 25, 1946 issue

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The article focuses on the motion picture "A Night in Casablanca." The motion picture isn't one of their best movies; for the worst they might ever' make would be better worth seeing than most other things the author can think of. Many of the things in this one, which by substance and look should be level with their best fall, somehow flat. Screen comedies used, after all, to be machines as delicately, annihilating designed for their purpose as any machines that have ever been constructed out of words or tones.

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NIGHT in Casablanca, A (Book); MOTION pictures; MOTION picture industry; CULTURAL industries; COMEDY; INDUSTRIES
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