Philip G. Epstein Articles

Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part I Once again, this is not to say that the Casablanca screenplay — credited to Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch — lacks charm; the comic scenes in the film, such as those involving the pickpocket, are good, but compare them with the deeper and blacker humor [...]

CASABLANCA (1942) Direction: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, S. Z. Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch; from Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" Oscar Movies Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: About three years ago, I [...]

Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger's death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil Alden Robinson's Academy Award-nominated 1989 drama Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner's character sets out to find a reclusive writer played by James Earl Jones. In W.P Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the character is Salinger himself, but not surprisingly, the reclusive real-life Salinger refused to allow the [...]

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, [...]