The letters of transit that motivate so many characters in the film did not exist in Vichy-controlled France--they are purely a plot device invented by the screenwriters. Playwright Joan Alison always expected somebody to challenge her about the letters, but nobody ever did. Bogart dealt with a similar non-entity entity in 1941's "The Maltese Falcon." Despite its centrality to the plot, no such object ever existed as described.

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