Answered from Casablanca · In Our Time · 2026-10-29
The In Our Time panel credits the film's qualities but argues its revival owed much to Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam, filmed in 1972, in which a ghostly Bogart advises Allen on romance. That introduced Casablanca to younger viewers who had never seen it. Television then took over: the panel cites it as the most requested film on American television, with about a 73% audience share on its first New York broadcast.
“The ability to bring together these disparate elements and to weld them together into something so that you don't notice the joins.” Ian Christie · at 25:19 — open in the transcript →
Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on In Our Time (2026-10-29). Read the whole episode summary →