A film set in this country ends as a woman in heels runs into the sand to follow her lover, abandoning La Bessière. An Umberto Eco essay subtitled “The Clichés are Having a Ball” mocks a film set in this country as an “orgy of sacrificial archetypes.” A pre-Code film set in this country contains a famous scene in which a singer played by Marlene Dietrich dons a tailcoat and kisses another woman. Hank and Jo McKenna’s son is kidnapped in this country in a film that climaxes at a London (*) embassy during Doris Day’s performance of “Que Sera, Sera,” Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much. Dwarf extras appear in a scene set in this country that used fog to obscure a cardboard model of a plane on a runway. In that Michael Curtiz film set in this country, the song “As Time Goes By” is played by the café pianist Sam. For 10 points, name this setting of Casablanca. ■END■
ANSWER: Morocco [or Kingdom of Morocco] (The Marlene Dietrich film is Morocco.)
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