What Movie Has the Line Play It Again Sam

Black-and-white film screenshot of a man and woman as seen from the shoulders up. The two are close to each other as if about to kiss.
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And the answer is: nobody. That line isn't in the picture. We get the total scoop from the website The Phrase Finder:

This is well-known as one of the most widely misquoted lines from films. The actual line in the film is 'Play it, Sam'. Something approaching 'Play it over again, Sam' is first said in the motion picture past Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in an exchange with the piano histrion 'Sam' (Dooley Wilson):

Ilsa: Play it one time, Sam. For old times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what y'all mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
Sam: Oh, I can't think it, Miss Ilsa. I'grand a little rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum information technology for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum…
Ilsa: Sing it, Sam.

The line is usually associated with Humphrey Bogart and afterwards in the moving-picture show his character Rick Blaine has a similar exchange, although his line is simply 'Play it':

Rick: You know what I desire to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: You lot played information technology for her, you can play information technology for me!
Sam: Well, I don't think I can remember…
Rick: If she can stand it, I can! Play information technology!

(http://world wide web.phrases.org.uk/meanings/284700.html)

Then there yous accept it. It's almost like hearing that Bugs Bunny never said, "What's up, Doctor?"

The plot of the movie is quite nuanced and complex, taking identify during 1942 in the urban center of Casablanca, Morocco, which is a magnet for refugees and shady agents on both sides of WWII because of its location on the coastline of Africa down from Gibraltar. I won't try to summarize the whole affair hither, merely information technology has a nice setup and a fascinating moral upshot. The setup is that Rick, the possessor of Rick'due south Cafè, a gambling den and general meeting identify for those in the know, had been madly in beloved with a woman named Ilse in 1940. He'd  met her in Paris right at the beginning of the war. Okay. She'd thought at the fourth dimension that her husband, a Czech resistance fighter named Victor Laszlo, had died in a concentration camp. When the husband showed up, live and well, she'd gone off with him without a give-and-take to Rick. Now, in the picture's present, she's in Casablanca with said married man and runs into Rick at that place. The moral issue? Should Rick aid Ilsa and her husband to escape the Nazis by giving them false messages of transit, or should he just help the husband get away and keep Ilse with him? (I'yard oversimplifying madly here.) The husband really knows that Ilse loves Rick and is willing to exit by himself. So what should Rick practise? (I go a trivial irritated with the thought that it's upward to the two men to make the conclusion.) At the last moment, Rick makes [!] Ilsa board the aeroplane to Lisbon with Laszlo, telling her that she would regret information technology if she stayed—"Possibly non today, maybe non tomorrow but soon and for the balance of your life". Well, so!

In the story "As Time Goes Past" was Rick and Ilse's song–you know, "their" vocal. It was written past the American songwriter Herman Hupfeld and was basically his just big hit, although I must mention that he was also the author of the immortal "When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On The Tuba." The song wasn't fifty-fifty written originally for the famous movie but for a flopped Broadway show titled Everybody's Welcome that ran for 139 performances in 1931. It was so re-used in a never-produced play called Everybody Goes to Rick'due south which follows the same bones story line equally the movie. In 1942 a story editor at Warner Brothers persuaded the producer Hall B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play, but no ane at the studio expected much from it. They were certainly proven wrong!

I tin't resist including hither the actual first verse of the song which was omitted in the movie and is most unknown. I recall it sets up the ideas of the rest of the vocal very well, and am sorry that Albert Einstein missed out on being associated so strongly with romance.

This day and age we're living in
Gives crusade for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like 4th dimension
Nevertheless we grow a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein'south theory
So we must get downwards to earth
At times relax, relieve the tension
No matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot exist removed.

Hither'southward the prune from the movie which includes the song but also the context around it:

And, considering I just can't resist, hither's Hupfeld's other hit:

Here are the lyrics as they announced in the film:

You lot must remember this
A kiss is but a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
Every bit time goes past.

And when two lovers woo
They yet say "I beloved you lot"
On that you tin rely
No affair what the future brings
Every bit time goes by.

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man, and man must have his mate
That no one can deny.

It's still the aforementioned old story
A fight for love and glory
A example of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As fourth dimension goes by.

© Debi Simons

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