Play It Again, Sam
Short description
Allan Felix is a neurotic film critic in San Francisco whose devotion to the movies has cost him his marriage. His wife Nancy has left him, and he is struggling to adjust to life on his own. A married couple, Dick and Linda Christie, try to help by setting him up with other women, but Allan's deep lack of self-confidence keeps getting in the way. Complicating matters is a recurring hallucination: Humphrey Bogart, the star of Allan's beloved Casablanca, appears at his side offering advice on how to deal with women, much of which proves useless in practice.
The film was directed by Herbert Ross, the second of the thirteen features he directed in chronological order, following Wonderful Town and preceding The Last of Sheila. Woody Allen wrote the screenplay, adapting it from his own successful stage play, and stars as Allan Felix, with Diane Keaton as Linda, Tony Roberts as Dick, Jerry Lacy as Bogart, Susan Anspach as Nancy and Jennifer Salt as Sharon. Arthur P. Jacobs produced.
The film runs eighty-five minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.4 from 661 votes, and it holds 7.4 from 35 film critics' reviews, so the two measures agree closely.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film’s set design required the use of many rare posters of old films and various props from the sets of famous pictures, and all of this had to be found first. The cost of the props varied from $10 to $500, and some props could not be bought at all, as the owners refused to part with them, so they could only be borrowed for a time.
- Initially, the film was to be shot in Manhattan and on Long Island, but due to a strike by film industry workers in New York in the summer of 1971, filming was moved to San Francisco.
- In the scene where Woody Allen's character dries his hair with a hairdryer, the airflow knocks down most of the medicine in the cabinet on the wall, but in the next shot, they are all back in their original places.
Auditions in India
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