Up until he was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1950, Howard Koch was considered among Hollywood's finest screenwriters. During the 1940s, he was responsible or partially responsible for such great films as The Letter, The Sea Hawk (both 1940), Sergeant York (1941) and Casablanca (1942), for which he shared an Oscar with co-writers Julius J. Epstein...
