re: #110 BeenHereAwhile

Howard Koch wrote that after principal filming started the Casablanca script writers literally wrote the script each morning for the day’s subsequent filming.

The film’s message of “round up the usual suspects,” still resonates today.

Every frame of that flick is classic. From what I’ve read, nobody involved with the making of it thought it was anything special before it was released to great acclaim. Bit o’ trivia: Howard Koch co-wrote, with Orson Welles, the script for the famous radio production of “War Of The Worlds,” and later became a big-time Hollywood producer. If memory serves, he ran one of the major studios during the fifties.