Phillip G. Epstein 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 [...]

John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat FILM I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi Crime by Night d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil Dragon Seed d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts Laura d: Otto Preminger; scr: [...]