Top 5 Movie Typewriters

 

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By Richard Polt

Screenwriters haven’t just banged on typewriters over the years; they’ve integrated them into stories of romance, intrigue, and horror. Using my own Remington 17 typewriter, I typed up a list of my favorite scene-stealing writing machines from the silver screen:

Richard Polt is a professor of philosophy at Xavier University and the author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century.

 
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