This puzzle is a selection of fifteen movie titles. The titles have been broken into doublets, and the doublets alphabetized.
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Example:*
INTOLERABLE CRUELTY
IN TO LE RA BL EC RU EL TY
BL EC EL IN LE RA RU TO TY
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Problems:
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Usually with this type of puzzle the movie titles have something in common. However, the movie titles here did not have a common factor. But no matter. I have a “Plan B” for such situations. In this case that plan called for adjusting each title ever so slightly and… voila! Now there are common factors.
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Once the common factors were established, the common factors themselves were replaced by the appropriate “Plan B”. It was only then that the titles were broken into the doublets.
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There is an extra doublet in every title but one. These extra doublets are not part of the altered titles at all. In exactly one title, there is no extra doublet. Instead, there is an extra single letter added to the end of the title.
Mitigating Circumstance:
The extra letters, beginning with the one single and then reading down the doublets (going back up to the top after #15) will yield a quote by…well, I bet you can guess who said it. If you can’t, Google can be your “Plan B”.
Can you find the original titles and the quote?
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EC EL ER HE LL LO SW TH WN
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AC AD AS BE CE CI DA EM LL NS OL ON PA TI TR Y4 ZE
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AJ BE EF ES FA FE LU LY MI ON RS VA
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FA LA OL TC TT XU
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EA EE EN ER ID LB OM SW TH
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CH EE EN EY HA HU OT RL SH SW TC TE TO
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AG CK EF EL EO LE MO NE OU RO RU TR US
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GA HE HI LL NG RR ST TC TI UR
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AL AR EM LE OW SH TH
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DG ES ET GC LI OO ST
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BA CE CK DA HE IN LE ON PR QM SS
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AN AS DO ER FU GD HE NO ON RM
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AY EY LE MO NE NK QU SS TU
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ER FI IE LD LL MO NK PY RE RE RS SO TI
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BB HD LI PS TU US WI
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- I had intended to use “Intolerable Cruelty” as part of the puzzle. However, after adjusting for the common factor, I couldn’t figure out what the appropriate “Plan B” should be. Perhaps some extremely bright doper could tell me.