Murray Burnett Articles

Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part IV – Ingrid Bergman The ending is good — Louie and Rick talk of leaving Casablanca after Louie covers for Rick's killing the Nazi Major Strasser — but there is nothing either actor does that lifts the scene above its own well-written basis. Then there is Strasser's portrayer, Conrad Veidt, an actor [...]

Worth checking out: Martin N. Kriegl's brief 2004 essay on the differences (in html) between Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's "Everybody Comes to Rick's," the unproduced play that was the basis for Casablanca, and the film's screenplay credited to Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch. Here are a couple of snippets from Kriegl's text: "Upon first reading both stage play and screenplay, [...]