Michael Curtiz
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Sep 10, 2026
Rob HuttonHOST
[laughs] But, but it's all, it's all abroad.
Rob HuttonHOST
Directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal B. Wallis.
Rob HuttonHOST
Those two names should mean something to you.
Duncan WeldonHOST
What's, what's Curtiz done that we've done?
Rob HuttonHOST
The, one of the greats.
Rob HuttonHOST
I know this because I had the poster on my wall as a teenager, and so Hal B. Wallis and Michael Curtiz are completely burned in my brain.
Rob HuttonHOST
Casablanca.
Duncan WeldonHOST
Oh, okay.
Patrick BromleyHOST
But like, there's no denying that it's better than 95% of [laughs] his movies.
Patrick BromleyHOST
I mean, it's Michael Curtiz.
Rosalie LewisGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Patrick BromleyHOST
Like, Walter Matthau is the gangster-
Oliver WhelanNARRATOR
Thanks.
Oliver WhelanNARRATOR
When we wrapped that afternoon, Michael Curtiz addressed us.
Michael CurtizGUEST
I believe this is the last day on this movie for all of you.
Michael CurtizGUEST
I wanted to thank you for being so patient over these weeks and for working so hard.
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Mary BombaHOST
Michael Uribes as the Zoot Suiter.
Mary BombaHOST
Zaina Cord as the Cook.
Mary BombaHOST
Michael Curtiz and L.A. Times Reporter No. 1.
Mary BombaHOST
Jonah Weiland as the Assistant Director.
György RádulyGUEST
Then the actors and directors get to know each other better.
György RádulyGUEST
In Hungary, it's Sándor Korda, Mihály Kertész, who later established the foundation of English and American film production.
György RádulyGUEST
And they were operatives, like József Bécsi, who photographed an incredible amount of films in the 1910s.
György RádulyGUEST
Later he became a journalist, and made war studies on the levels of the First World War.
Zach EastmanHOST
Shout out to our boy here.
Zach EastmanHOST
For many reasons, not the least of which is because our last chat about Michael Curtiz had to do with Noah's Ark.
Zach EastmanHOST
Amanda, oh boy, we talked about Michael Curtiz having very little regard for human life in that production.
Zach EastmanHOST
It looks like that that continued, whether it was psychological or physical, or at least attempts so.
Zach EastmanHOST
First off, the woman who plays Bogie's wife in Passage to Marseille is an actress named Michelle Morgan.
Sterling CookGUEST
If you're going to be Passage of Marseille Curtiz, like, I don't know.
Sterling CookGUEST
And
Zach EastmanHOST
also, if you're going to make a movie that involves model shots and effects, maybe don't, I don't know, do what Michael Curtiz did to Sid Loringer.
PeterHOST
What can you tell us about this, Andrew?
AndrewHOST
Casablanca 1942, directed by Michael Curtiz.
AndrewHOST
They had a date with fate in Casablanca.
AndrewHOST
In Casablanca, Morocco, in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover with unforeseen complications.
27 MINS LATER
PeterHOST
And I think a lot of films also would have had...
PeterHOST
And this is maybe just a nature of the kind of films that were made at the time.
PeterHOST
Although Adventures of Robin Hood, also by Michael Curtiz, had lots of action in it.
PeterHOST
But I think...
Spider-DanHOST
And again, whoever knew the real Joan Crawford either, maybe she saw a lot in Vida, maybe in herself, perhaps, I don't know, or what she's had to go through to get that.
Spider-DanHOST
But You know, Curtiz was like, you've got these really broad shoulders.
Spider-DanHOST
I hate these shoulder pads.
Spider-DanHOST
Take them off, take them off.
CamHOST
Number one was This is the Army.
CamHOST
which was a World War I musical comedy directed by Michael Curtiz that was made to raise U.S. morale, and all proceeds went to the Army Emergency Relief.
CamHOST
Cool.
CamHOST
So that was its purpose.
Brian SaurHOST
Um, so we'll start with the four Ks and then we'll get into some of the other stuff, but we got a nice solid banger kind of movie here.
Brian SaurHOST
If you're a fan of Elvis Presley in his 1958 film, King Creole directed by Michael Curtiz.
Brian SaurHOST
Um, this one is one of my favorite Elvis movies.
Brian SaurHOST
and it is it's it's a really one of his best performances and it's black and white it looks great this is a 2020 hdr dolby vision master by paramount uh from a 4k scan of the original camera negative and it looks stunning it looks really really nice so um This one, Elvis personally brings a new beat to Bourbon Street in King Creole, directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz, of course, Casablanca, and many others.
Brian SaurHOST
Elvis plays a troubled youth whose singing sets the French Quarter rocking.
Brian SaurHOST
With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it looks like he'll shake off his past and head for the top.
speaker_0HOST
Loving You, then Jailhouse Rock, and then, in 1958, the movie that showed what might have been possible.
speaker_0HOST
King Creole, directed by Michael Curtis, the director of Casablanca.
speaker_0HOST
Walter Matthew, opposite Elvis.
speaker_0HOST
A serious dramatic role.
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