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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 3971360, member: 10435"] She was definitely vulnerable and convincing and for good reason. She didn't know who she was going to end up with and had to act that way because the director and the writers couldn't agree on the ending. She complained constantly about it during the shooting of the film. They also had to deal with the motion picture code which forbade a married woman leaving her husband for another man. She had to be in love with both of them, although in different ways, and sell it because neither she nor anyone else knew the ending and she couldn't be in love with the one she doesn't end up with. The two writers, the identical Epstein twins, were driving down Sunset Blvd, stopped at a light and simultaneously blurted out at the same time" Round up the usual suspects". Problem solved. There is your ending. The pre censored version also had more explicit references to sex between Rick and Ilsa the night before the airport scene and between the venal Captain (Claude Rains) and the young visa seeking women he exploited. Finally, Ingrid Bergman was 5'9" ( could have been a center back then or at least a power forward) and Bogart was 5'8" at best but probably 5'7". Notice in the last scene and others he is taller than her? Standing on props. Even when they are seated, he is on an extra cushion. My favorite movie and incredibly timely being released in 1942. The apparently self-centered, at times weak and hateful, and self proclaimed neutral American, becomes transformed into a man of great nobility and purpose and "joins the fight" as he gives up the love of his life for the greater good. It was shot entirely on set in Burbank in four months except for the last scene which was at Van Nuys Airport. Best scene for me "Play the Marseillaise". [/QUOTE]

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