Word: curtiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lund (Ingrid Bergman) would stay in Casablanca with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) or leave with her husband (Paul Henreid). The production took on a kind of war-zone chaos, with scenes filmed as fast as writers typed them. When one of the cast inquired politely about the plot, Director Michael Curtiz shouted, "Actors! Actors! They want to know everything." Ingrid Bergman complained that she did not know how to act toward the two men because she didn't know her fate. Screenwriter Julius Epstein told her simply, "As soon as we know, we'll let you know." Finally...
Here are some others we liked: It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946); Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964); Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933); The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); Mean Streets (Martin Scorcese, 1974); Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1935; The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Charles Bogel, 1935); Swing Time (George Stevens, 1937); Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1935; and the Road to Utopia (you've got us, with Hope and Crosby...
...group, is so inclusive as it is that the only possible complaint is not what it excludes but what it includes. The recent films--Sleuth, The Long Goodbye , Klute. Harper and The Last of Sheila-- leave you wondering what kind of touch less than-stellar directors like Michael Curtiz had that today's better directors like Robert Altman, don't Sleuth is simply a too-cute stage play turned into a too-cute (and what's worse for a mystery, too easy to figure out) movie: The Last of Sheila and Klute derive their chief interest not so much from...
...about Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains, except maybe that Rains is actually a deus ex machina at the end and that you should read the short story, "Sodom and Gomorrah," by Richard Berczeller in the October 14 issue of the New Yorker about Michael Curtiz, the film's director...
...smoky Club American where Clause Rains wins at roulette, where Crande arrival earns Sam's state--Petter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot, Conrad Veidt. Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michael Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...