In the original script for the stage play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" the Germans are after the money Laszlo made as an anti-Nazi publisher. It's more cynical than the movie.
In the original script for the stage play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" the Germans are after the money Laszlo made as an anti-Nazi publisher. It's more cynical than the movie.
The Germans didn't need to believe he was a threat originally, they just wanted to seize the money they'd thought he'd made spreading "lies" about them.
In the original script for the stage play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" the Germans are after the money Laszlo made as an anti-Nazi publisher. It's more cynical than the movie.
My comment is partly a response to Matt Yglesias' take that Laszlo's anti-Nazi activities were "totally unimportant":
https://www.slowboring.com/p/end-of-the-mailbag-as-we-know-it
The Germans didn't need to believe he was a threat originally, they just wanted to seize the money they'd thought he'd made spreading "lies" about them.