Lawfare
This week marks the 80th anniversary of the start of principal photography on Casablanca, the 1942 film that would win Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Philip Epstein, Julius Epstein, and Howard Koch). Often ranked by critics and the general public in the top five films of all time, Casablanca was first screened just as the city in French Morocco was hitting headlines because of the Allies’ Operation TORCH invasion of North Africa during World War II.
To talk about the movie, the city’s wartime history, and the veracity of CasablancaThe Chatter Podcast: The Movie “Casablanca” in Myth and Reality with Meredith Hindley