Famous last words, but only in the movies

As Casablanca turns 70 years old and with just days to go to the Oscars, film critic Philip French picks the finest pay-off lines of all time

CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Said by liberal nightclub owner, Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), to collaborationist police chief, Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), as they quit vanquished Morocco to join the Free French army in West Africa. As quotable as Hamlet, a witty, sophisticated last line.