The film ran into some trouble with Joseph Breen of the Production Code Administration (run by Joseph Breen, which since mid-1934 had been censoring Hollywood movies under threat of film boycotts by American Roman Catholics, predominantly those of Irish descent, at the insistence of the church's hierarchy), which opposed the suggestions that Capt. Renault extorted sexual favors from his supplicants, and that Rick and Ilsa had slept together in Paris. Extensive changes were made, with several lines of dialogue removed or altered. All direct references to sex were deleted; Renault's selling of visas for sex and Rick and Ilsa's previous sexual relationship were implied elliptically rather than referenced explicitly. Also, in the original script, when Sam plays "As Time Goes By", Rick remarks, "What the--are you playing?" This line implying a curse word was removed at the behest of the PCA.

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