“Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. These were Underworld, The Scoundrel, Wuthering Heights, Viva Villa, Scarface, Specter of the Rose, Actors and Sin, Roman Holiday, Spellbound, Nothing Sacred.”

— Ben Hecht

from "Elegy for Wonderland", by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959

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