"money takes flight when might conquers right"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't the simple answer that this combination of two traditional
phrases was fabricated by the trio that wrote the screenplay of the
movie?
DanG


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 1/7/2013 10:19 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>>A website with movie subtitle (or caption) information suggests that a
>>variant of the saying with the word "fright" was used in the dialog of
>>Ivanhoe. Of course, captions are sometimes inaccurate.
>
> True, although "fright" has about 56 hits, versus
> "money takes *flight*" + "might conquers right"
> which yields only a hapax legomenon:
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> "Apr 19, 2012 – To quote a line from one of my
> favorite movies "When might conquers right, money
> takes flight." From Ivanhoe 1952. All been posted before by ..."
> http://hotcopper.co.nz/post_single.asp?fid=1&tid=1721404&msgid=9965717
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> I can't swear whether I heard "flight" or "fright".  (Either would serve.)
>
> But still, did the saying appear earlier than in the movie?
> http://www.docstoc.com/docs/80908184/February-16_-2007-Quote-of-the-day-_quotMoney-takes-fright-when-might
> attributes the "fright" formulation to Scott and
> Ivanhoe, but I did not find it in Gutenberg's copy.
>
> Joel
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