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WEDNESDAY: Casablanca. (1943) Play it again, Sam, and we'll never tire of it. Bogart, Bergman, Rains, Heinreid, Lorre, Greenstreet...
...privilege might only come with tenure?) I had always thought that every citizen should be encouraged to search out the truth. "Let me do the thinking for us both," Popkin seemed to be saying. I couldn't figure out how I had come to play Bacall to his Bogart...
...Have and Have Not. Lauren Bacall's first screen appearance was in this classic Bogart film. Ernest Hemingway and director Howard Hawks worked out changes in the plot of Hemingway's novel. Then William Faulkner wrote the screenplay and Hawks directed with his tongue in his cheek. The filming was spontaneous and the plot got lost, bolling down to Bogart and his tough, sexy dame accompanied by Hoagy Carmichael and his honky-tonk...
...story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...
...doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first major role, 1936. Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson's mediocre play about innocent people held captive by a ruthless gang at a Florida hotel is a showpiece for John Huston's direction of a star-studded cast: Bogart and Bacall, Claire Trevor, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, even...