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"
Humphrey Cobb Humphrey Cobb Humphrey Cobb (September 5, 1899 – April 25, 1944) was an Italian-born, American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel "Paths of Glory" (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 film "Paths of Glory" by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 film "San Quentin", starring Humphrey Bogart. Cobb was born in Siena, Italy. He served with the Canadian Army for three years during the First World War and fought in the Battle of Amiens. Stephen E. Tabachnick, in the Afterword to the U of Georgia Press' 1987 reprint of