I don't know if I have a favourite film but Casablanca would be up there - it's crisp direction, editing, black and white photography, studio backlot, peerless cast, gripping story with themes of sacrifice and redemption and downright cleverness.
This is a worthy tribute taking the reader through the initial play, Everyone Comes to Ricks - which had a lot more influence on the final product than is normally acknowledged. The meat of the drama is all in that original script. Mind you clearly outstanding work was done by the Epsteins, Howard Koch, Hal Wallis etc... the book still doesn't entirely clear up who contributed what (probably impossible). Interesting memos and so on.
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