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Rick
Rick Rick is quintessentially American and twentieth-century — the name of the common man who has seen too much and cares more than he lets on. Characters named Rick tend to project nonchalant competence while concealing a deeper moral seriousness, in the tradition of Casablanca's unforgettable protagonist.
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Rick Blaine
Casablanca (screenplay) — Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
The cynical, world-weary American expatriate café owner whose buried idealism is reawakened by the arrival of his former lover in wartime Casablanca.
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