"CASABLANCA" , "HAVANA ", and a NOVEL (A Valentine's Week Special Edition)

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This special Edition of our podcast , is a look back at two of our favorite motion pictures, "Casablanca" , and "Havana", just in time for "Casablanca" to be making its reappearance on the Silver Screen over the next week at theaters all across the nation.

The Flashback Theater Series will be featuring the picture at various theaters around the country (At Stone Theaters at the Market Commons, for those here in the Myrtle Beach S.C. area) on February 9, 12, and Valentine's Day February 14th. We cannot urge you enough to go see it on the big screen if you have never done so, or if you want to see it again. There is nothing like it.

In this episode , we have looked all over to find source material that could tell the unlikely story of this movie, made in utter chaos, with actors who did not believe in the story, and did not want to be making the movie, writer's actually rewriting and creating the story as they went along, day by day, during the production, and creating this movie that did not even have a settled end, when it was finished. But somehow out of that chaos came a cinematic masterpiece that has left only one question to debate....Is it the greatest movie ever made? or is it just one of the greatest movies ever made? No one even dares say its not great.

It is also a movie that has been imitated several times but no one as of yet has ever been able to replicate its magic, though one movie came the closest even if it failed at the box office, and we will take sometime to look at that movie too, "Havana", directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Elena Olin, Robert Redford and Raul Julia.

We share them both with you , just as Casablanca is about to return to the big screen, on this Valentine's Week and also because they , along with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, served as the inspiration of our own Host's new novel that will be out near the end of 2025 or at the start of 2026.

We hope you enjoy our special edition and if you want to learn about Flashback Cinema check it out at https://www.flashbackcinema.net/ and please also drop by www.RandalWallace.com too to keep up with all the news from us here at the podcast too.

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Chapters

1. Rick's Cafe in Morocco brings Hollywood's Casablanca to life - Forbes Middle East (00:00:00)

2. Intro Music (00:02:09)

3. Casablanca Scene - "Play the old song" (00:02:34)

4. Casablanca Scene - "Rick's Play it Sam" (00:06:40)

5. Voice over by Host Randal Wallace talking about the movie "Casablanca" (00:08:47)

6. TCM Comments on "Casablanca" - Introduction by Legendary Host Robert Osborne (00:10:45)

7. If Casablanca came out today A Modern trailer - HBO Max (00:13:03)

8. Tales from the making of Casablanca as told by Ingrid Bergman - The Dick Cavett Show (00:14:58)

9. Steven Spielberg on Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca - Documentary segment (00:19:26)

10. Ingrid Bergman did not have faith in Casablanca - CBC Archives (00:20:22)

11. Casablanca Screenwriter recalls the making of Casablanca the movie classic - Local News report in Boston in the early 1980s (00:22:39)

12. Casablanca an unlikely classic, Steven Spielberg's thoughts - Documentary segment (00:28:00)

13. Host Randal Wallace talks about seeing the movie the first time and the refugee status of most of the actors (00:30:53)

14. Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Casablanca - CBS Sunday Morning (00:33:18)

15. TCM Comments on "Casablanca" - Close out and Michael Curtiz story by Legendary host Robert Osborne (00:40:31)

16. Host Randal Wallace talks about the Elvis Presley connection, and how they have never been able to recapture the commercial magic of Casablanca with remakes, though one comes the closest. (00:41:39)

17. "Havana" Trailer (00:43:40)

18. "Siskel and Ebert" Show - Review of "Havana" (00:46:37)

19. Robert Redford and Sidney Pollack : The Men and their movies Documentary segment (00:51:06)

20. The Making of Havana - Documentary segment from the DVD (00:53:41)

21. Robert Redford and Sidney Pollack : The Men and their movies Documentary segment (00:54:48)

22. Host Randal Wallace uses an old facbook video short he did while on vacation in Key West, Florida when he stumbled on a scene location from the end of the movie "Havana" (00:58:22)

23. A two scene segment from the Universal Pictures Motion Picture from 1990 "Havana" with Robert Redford and Elena Olin. (00:59:54)

24. Voice over by Host Randal Wallace talking about the movie "Casablanca" appearing this next week at theaters around the country for "Flashback Cinema" , and Wallace discussing his coming Novel release (01:04:50)

25. Casablanca Scene - "Louie I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" (01:06:15)

26. Closing theme (01:06:28)

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