Humphrey Bogart in a cast list at the trailer's end. Robinson's role is evocative of Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" (1936), a Bogart leading man breakthrough the studio had originally earmarked for Robinson. The enormous success of "Casablanca" redefined Bogart's career. For the first time, Bogart could be cast successfully as both a tough, strong man and vulnerable love interest. Despite his elevated standing, he did not yet have a contractual right of script refusal. When he got weak scripts he simply dug in his heels and locked horns again with the front office, as he did on the film "Conflict"
Which Lie Did I Tell? example of the principle that the best scene sometimes needs to be cut), "The Ghost and the Darkness" (which he uses as an example of how ego can hinder a film's production and artistic integrity) and "Absolute Power" (which he uses as an example to illustrate why a movie does not have to be faithful to the book on which it is based). Two films he does not cover are "Heat" (for legal reasons) and "The Chamber" (because it was not remotely interesting). The next part of the book has Goldman analyzing scenes from various screenplays he admires including "There's