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"I'm shocked - SHOCKED - to find a reaction to Casablanca posted here!" YT: "Your subscription notifications, sir." "Oh, thank you very much!"

The dialogue in this is positively spectacular. Not just the famous lines, but stuff like, "I'm only a poor corrupt official" and "We'll be there at 6." "I'll be there at 10." And "Waters? We're in the desert." "I was misinformed." Honestly, the whole thing is just amazing. And of course, it's so dialogue-driven because it was originally written as an unproduced stage play.

"yea he's a scumbag, but the actor who plays him is extremely charming and it's very confusing" maybe the single greatest description I've ever heard of Claude Rains' character in this movie haha

Bogart played villains, heroes and anti heroes. One of the great actors of the 40’s and 50’s

The Maltese Falcon is another Bogart classic.

Arguably, the greatest movie of all time. Every line is quotable. And Claude Raines literally steals the film from Bogie! People also forget, this was filmed WHILE THE WAR was on. So no one knew what the outcome of WWII was going to be. Just amazing.

Captain Renault : "I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here." Croupier : "Your winnings, sir." Captain Renault: "Thenk yew!" I use the "I'm shocked!" line all the time.

Conrad Veidt who played Major Strasser fled Nazi Germany and hated Hitler. He only agreed to play the role as long as it had no redeeming qualities. Every other character had comic moments except his.

Peter Lorre is in another absolutely BRILLIANT film from Frtiz Lang... It will be the oldest film you've seen...and it's in German... but don't let that stop you... it's INCREDIBLE. The film is called "M"... and the backstory is astounding. Fritz Lang used actual criminals in the film... based on a true story. You'll never forget it.

You got two out of three correct , George. That’s not bad. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”, is from Gone with the Wind.

A common reading of the film is that Rick mirrors America's initial reaction to the war- neutrality. But in the end he does what he should, even if it's not what he wants (or what the audience wants for him and Elsa)

In the scene, the very emotional scene in playing of the French National anthem, "La Marseillaise", many of those actors who teared up including the young woman Yvonne played by Madeleine Lebeau, were actually French and escaped occupied France before making it to Hollywood, so those emotions were real and not acting!

Bogie's line, "I heard a story once - as a matter of fact, I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs. 'Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid,' it always began" is a lot more cutting than it seems to us now. Back then, the stereotypical brothel was a two-story building with the rooms upstairs and a parlor/bar downstairs where the men could relax, meet the girls, get some drinks, and listen to music (jazz music was invented in places like that in New Orleans), and the girls would always give a sob story in an effort to get more money. Rick was calling Ilsa a whore.

The singing of La Marseillaise in the cafe gives me goosebumps - every time! And the scene illustrates one of the themes of the film - Democracy vs fascism. The people in the bar, many of them displaced refugees from across Europe (many of the actors in the film were real life refugees including Madeleine Lebeau who played Yvonne who we see tearfully singing the song), led by Victor Laszlo literally rise to their feet and unite to combat Nazi fascism. It reflects something Laszlo said earlier in the film: "What if you murdered all of us? From every corner of Europe hundreds, thousands, would rise to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast." Also, the words of 'La Marseillaise" itself are particularly poignant (the English translation): "Grab your weapons, citizens! Form your battalions! Let us march! Let us march!" (And strains of La Marseillaise play over the closing titles, as Rick and Captain Renault walk off, determined to re-join the fight.) And the scene is a sort of microcosm showing the dynamics between the three main characters Rick, Victor and Ilsa. At first Rick is willing to sit back and allow the Nazis to sing, reflecting his stance to remain neutral and "not stick his neck out" for anyone. But Victor is a man of action and cannot sit by and do nothing. Yet Rick gives the band leader a nod letting him know he approves of them playing the song. Laszlo unites the people and together they stand up (literally) to the Germans. Meanwhile, we see Ilsa, who is torn between her feeling for the two men, watching the whole thing and we see in her eyes the love and admiration she has for Victor.

It's very rare for a movie with THIS type of reputation to live up to it, and Casablanca does it in spades. One of the greatest movies of all time, no doubt about it.

About the movie’s timeline: The budding relationship between Rick and Ilsa is interrupted by the German occupation of Paris in June 1940. They meet again when Ilsa and Victor come to Rick’s café in December 1941 (Early in the movie Rick puts his “OK” on a Café Americain check for 1000 francs, and it is dated 2 Déciembre 41). So, it has been only a year and a half that Rick and Ilsa have been apart. - - The attack on Pearl Harbor that prompted the U.S. commitment to WWII was on Dec. 7, 1941. The action in the movie takes place at the turning point for the U.S., and Rick’s change from uninvolved to patriot parallels that shift.

"Scissor me timbers" is now my favorite Simone-ism 😂

I've watched several reactions to one of my favorite movies. No one figured out Elsa thought Victor was dead soo quick.

It helps to know that the screenplay for Casablanca is based on an unproduced play that was written a few years earlier before the United States had entered World War II. So, the whole idea of the American Rick Blaine being neutral in all political matters was a commentary/metaphor for the U.S.'s position while War raged in Europe. By the time the movie was made, the U.S. had entered the War - actually I believe the play landed on the desk of one of the executives at Warner Brothers Studios only a few days or weeks after the bombing at Pearl Harbor and Warner Brothers quickly went ahead with making it into a movie.

It helps to understand the WW2 timeline. WW2 started in '39, America entered the war late '41, Casablanca came out in '42, and the war ended in '45. So Casablanca came out before anyone knew what the outcome of the war would be. A love story in the midst of chaos.

I watched this movie for the first time back in 1982 in an effort to understand my sister's infatuation with Humphrey Bogart. It has been my favourite movie ever since. It was the first VHS movie I ever bought and I have gone through DVD, Blu-ray, and am now on my current 4K copy. I've long since lost count of how many times I've seen it but I can practically quote every line of dialog along with the characters. It has been my constant companion and solace through 40+ years of heartbreaks, lonely nights, and Valentine's Days. I've seen in twice in theatres, once in Saskatoon and once in Vancouver. In both cases the entire audience burst into applause when Captain Renault said "Round up the usual suspects" at the airport.

It’s amazing that this film released a few weeks after The Allies invaded French North Africa during WW2. The war was still going on while the battle of the German vs French anthem scene happened. It must have been cathartic for people at the time.

Casablanca has always been the movie I judge reactors by; whether they try to understand the era, talk over important info. So happy Cinebinge got it❤❤😊

I always look at the scene with the national anthem sing-off as the essence of this film. Many of the actors had fled Europe to escape the Nazis. Even many of the bit parts were performed by actors with serious resumes in Europe before fleeing. So when there are tears shed in this scene - they have real emotional gravitas. These were a people who fled horrors and nobody knew where the world was going. Yvonne sings in this scene with defiance and tears. The french actor and her husband (who plays the roulette dealer) had both fled Europe following a path very similar to the path described in the start of the film (in fact - the final demarcation point out of Europe to the Americas was the original setting for Rick's). They managed to travel through Mexico, get Canadian visas, and enter the United States to land jobs at Warner Bros to eventually be a part of cinema history.

Legend has it that the script was still being revised during production. Nobody (including Ingrid/Ilsa) knew who she would leave with until the last scene leaving the airport. And since it was produced and released during the war, nobody knew who would win WW2, either. Indeed, the movie was made for an audience who were in the middle of the war and understood all the subtle details and "inside jokes:" The production crew did an amazing job considering the wartime restrictions on materials: wood and paint for sets, fabric for costumes, even food both on camera and behind the scenes to feed the cast and crew.. And completely filmed in Burbank, California including the "street scenes" in "Casablanca", and at the Hollywood-Burbank airport.

I think Simone might have missed this - when Ilsa asked Victor why he didn't leave her behind when she was sick and Victor tired to say that "things" kept coming up or something but the truth is that he couldn't leave her behind. He loved her and, thus, she was an important part of his work.

Such an amazing movie, everyone is great but Claude Rains looks like he is having the time of his life.

In case you guys never knew, As Time Goes By is the small jingle used in the Warner Bros shield logo

In the 1980s as a social experiment, a writer submitted 200 copies of the script to various Hollywood agencies using the film's original name. Of the 79 that read the script, 33 recognized it with some even writing back joking replies, while 39 sent the script back with notes saying that the story was too weak.

1) George is right on the hero/villain deals - I don't know about other contracts but Conrad Veidt only agreed to play Major Strasser on the condition that he was *completely* irredeemable and unsympathetic. 2) It's worth bearing in mind that this was made *during* the Second World War. There was no guarantee that the Nazis were going to lose, and the passion on the faces and the cry of "Vive la France" in the singing scene were real - many of the actors had escaped occupied Europe only a few years before filming. 3) As was the style at the time, the script was written and rewritten *during* filming. When Ilsa says "You'll have to think for both of us", she wasn't joking - they hadn't decided how the film was going to end at that point! 4) The American Film Institute made a list of their 100 Greatest Movie Quotes in 2005. Even getting one quote in the list meant it was a highly acclaimed movie for the ages, two was an era-defining film, and three basically meant it was part of the foundation of cinema itself. No film had more than three entries on the list. Except Casablanca. Which had SIX.

Ok, I have two suggestions for you. For Humphrey Bogart my suggestion is The Maltese Falcon (1941) This is a film-noir detective story and it pretty much set the standard for detective movies for several year. LOTS of movies borrowed from The Maltese Falcon. For Claude Rains (Captain Renault) I suggest Lawrence of Arabia (1962) A Bio-pic of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who united the warring, Arab tribes against the Turks in WWI. It is a spectacular movie, and the desert backdrop feels like a character in the movie.

"Play it again Sam". The most famous line from the movie that's not actually in the movie.

The movie with the fastest dialog (and some of the wittiest )is His Girl Friday with Cary Grant ,directed by Howard Hawks.

This film takes place during the first week of December, 1941, just before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor ("I bet in America they're still asleep."). Rick and Sam left Paris on June 13, 1940. This film is a master class in light and shadow. On rewatch you will notice that Maj. Strasse is always somewhat shadowed, Victor is in light, and Rick is half and half (either side lit or with shadows crossing him). As the film comes toward the end Rick becomes more and more in the light. It is worth a rewatch just to pay attention to the lighting cues.

So many great performers who also appear in my favorite Bogart film, The Maltese Falcon.

"Best screenplay ever written," according to Brian Cox's character in Adaptation. I love that Simone was completely caught up in the line story. I can't remember if this was the first Bogart movie I ever saw, but it's one of the ones that made me understand his greatness. You should definitely check out more Bogart, especially The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep and The African Queen.

I never realized someone was talking Cantonese. There's lots of little phrases popping up here and there that many Americans miss but leaves foreigners in stitches, e.g. Sasha's Russian mumbling, and the old German couple with their great "What watch" "Such much" exchange.

In college I used to organize a weekly movie night, and when our venue was about to close, I went out of my way to get my hands on a copy of Casablanca. (This was before streaming.) We had about twice the usual crowd, and it was super-unruly... until the film began. Everyone laughed and was moved at exactly the right times. At the closing line, they cheered. Aaand then suddenly the room went back to being rowdy and unruly. But for those roughly two hours, I'm telling you they were spellbound.

Another classic is The Treasure of the Seirra Madre, a classic among classics in my opion

I’m not old old and this is still one of my top five of all time.

Peter Lorre (Ugarte) had a very distinct voice. He was one of the (countless) impersonations Robin Williams did as the Genie in Aladdin. "I can't bring people back from the dead. It's not a pretty picture. I don't like DOING IT!"

Major Strasser, was in the Man Who Laughed, and was the inspiration for the look of the Joker. He was also the sleepwalking killer in the Cabinet of Caligari, an early German Expressionist film classic.

There is a reason that this movie is considered to have one of the best screenplays of all time…

I watched Casablanca in the theater (no, I'm not that old) during a classic movie festival. They've found an old, old copy. At the scene with Ilsa's note they localized the note, filming one written in portuguese (I live in Brazil), even with the rain drops hitting it. A nice detail.

It's funny they joke that Captain Renault had a crush on Rick and at end they walk off like they're lovers.

Ilsa was young and mistook hero worship for love when she met Lazlo because she didn't know any better. She admires and respects the man he is, but she never knew real love until she met Rick in Paris. Her sense of loyalty and propriety causes her to sacrifice that to do the right thing when she discovers her husband is still alive: even though she knows two hearts are broken in the process for her the cause and her place in it are more important. The film is a masterpiece about sacrifice and being willing go give up what you have for a better world, which makes perfect sense given when it was filmed. And whilst it is and will always be regarded a classic, that's a message we could all apply more in current times... So glad you enjoyed my favorite movie! For me personally, the song Angel by Sarah McLachlan is my version of Rick and Ilsa's "As Time Goes By"...

Nobody has ever been cooler--or will be cooler--than Bogart in this movie.

Casablanca is one of those movies that just delivers every time. There are some supposed classics that are over-hyped or don't hold up over time. Casablanca lives up to the hype.

Many of the actors had fled Europe because of the war. Madeleine Lebeau, who played Yvonne, is a case in point. She and her husband (who played the croupier) fled France ahead of the Germans with the intent of going to Chile, but when they got to Mexico it was discovered that their visas were forged. They were stuck in Mexico for a while, until they were able to obtain temporary Canadian passports and used those to go to the U.S. The similarity of her situation to Yvonne's wasn't lost on her. Her tears during the singing of La Marseillaise were real. Casablanca was based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's. It was written before the U.S. entered the war, which happened at the end of 1941. The movie was filmed in 1942, but the story was set before then. Many Americans were opposed to their country being in the war, seeing it as a European problem they wanted to stay out of. When Rick said, "I'll bet they're asleep all over America," it was an ironic commentary on American isolationism (by the writers, not by Rick himself, who meant it literally). Victor was telling a white lie to Ilsa when he told her he would leave without her if the shoe were on the other foot. He loved her and wanted her to be safe. She saw through the lie and called him on it. Some stars may have had clauses in their contracts that they would only play heroes, but Humphrey Bogart did not. He played some pretty awful characters late into his career. More movies starring Bogart. All of them would be good to react to: The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Big Sleep (1946) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) The African Queen (1951) The Caine Mutiny (1954) So this is the oldest movie you've reacted to? Here are some more old movies you might like: M (1931) Duck Soup (1933) It Happened One Night (1934) The Thin Man (1934) Bringing Up Baby (1938) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Citizen Kane (1941) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) The Third Man (1949) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Roman Holiday (1953) Thanks!

This was great! The politics of the time ARE quite complicated, and it's interesting the film still seems to work. France was half-occupied, but the "unoccupied" part was a vassal state in service to Germany, run out of the town of Vichy. So when the Renault throws a bottle of Vichy water in the bin at the end, it's a symbol that he's rejecting the regime he'd been following. A detail everyone in 1941 apparently understood, but which is pretty opaque to most of us today.

This is one of those few great movies that DESERVES to be called great. I'm glad you saw it, and I'm glad you paid such close attention.

I would seriously say that only HAMLET surpasses CASABLANCA for the number of immortal lines it contains. And they're almost not even quotes any more (in both cases) -- they've passed into the language as idioms or sayings. People will say "I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to [learn something obvious]" or "start of a beautiful friendship" because they feel like cool things to say, not because they're quoting a movie. The song "As Times Goes By" was already a decade old by the time it was used here. Herman Hupfield wrote it for a 1931 stage show, but Casablanca is what made it immortal.

George: The remaining quote, "I don't give a damn." is from an even older movie called, "Gone with the Wind." Its an epic movie and is the source of many other quotes I'm sure you've heard. I beg yous to watch it.

20:24 This moment of dueling anthems hits my heart more than almost anything else in all of cinema

Louie (Claude Rains) was the original Invisible Man.

Such an amazing film! And a little history, The Germans marched into Paris on June 14, 1940, and the movie takes place in December 1941, so a little over a year has elapsed since Rick and Ilsa had last seen each other. FYI....

Casablanca is one of the greatest movies ever made. It literally has something for everyone, romance, intrigue, action.

The actor who played Louie was the great Claude Rains. He is one of the greatest character actors of all time. He played a villain in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was in Hitchcock's Notorious. 1941's The Wolfman. He also starred in the title role in 1933's The Invisible Man. I highly recommend you watch it. He is amazing in that film. The effects are very impressive and revolutionary for the 1930s. Humphrey Bogart is also great in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. Those are worth your time as well.

Yes George, your comment at the start about "audiences knowing at that time" was on point. As an old guy, when a young person sits down to watch Casablanca ...without spoiling anything, I always advise that they remember that this film came out during the early days of WW2. That is the mindset of audiences watching it in that time. The emotional impact of so much of it is based on that fact.

the marseillaise scene is one the most goosebumps making scenes for me ever.... up there with the charge of the rohirim and "oh captain my captain"

This movie is a classic for a reason! Such good dialog, complicated characters, great acting! I love Humphry Bogart. He said once "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis", which I consider to be good life advice.

Another classic film noir recommendation: *The Third Man.* It is based on a screenplay by Graham Greene and is set in postwar Vienna.

“Play it! If she can stand to hear it, I can.” Breaks my heart every time.

This film will forever be studied for its impactful dialogue and character development. “Are my eyes really brown?”

You mentioned being surprised that the movie is almost all wall-to-wall dialog; that was what the majority of movies were like up until the mid-1950's. Some other great films of this era with phenomenal dialog I recommend are HIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR, and ALL ABOUT EVE.

The source of the expression "the usual suspects." The latter was even the title of a 1995 movie with Kevin Spacey.

Although it makes sense to assume that things took longer decades and decades ago, film production was not one of them. Casablanca started filming on May 25th, 1942, and finished on August 3rd, and the finished film premiered in Hollywood on November 26th. Another great film made the same year that was also about the war as it was going on is Ernest Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), which is even more pointed in some ways. That would be another great movie that I'd love to see you react to even if the 1983 Mel Brooks remake is more famous and yet still probably one of his least-famous movies. Lubitsch also directed The Shop Around the Corner (1940), the film that was remade into You've Got Mail. To Be or Not to Be is more my personal recommendation, but I'd also love to see Shop because I know how much Simone loves YGM. Madeleine LeBeau, the woman who plays Yvonne, actually fled France with her husband when the Germans invaded. When she cries singing "La Marseillaise," her tears were authentic. Casablanca is famous not only as one of the greatest movies of all time, but also one that was rewritten during production, and one where some of the stars thought it wasn't going to be any good, only for it to become a classic. You never can tell sometimes. Music in silent films is interesting, because the music is not necessarily attached to the film. You can see a silent film several times and you may never get the same exact soundtrack, with different versions having different scores by different silent film composers. One great example is that you can watch a version of Buster Keaton's The General (1926) on RU-vid with a score by Joe Hisaishi, the famous composer of several Studio Ghibli movies. So, while the music may be copyrighted, it will definitely be different than the kind of music copyright issues you deal with now. I cannot say whether or not it will be harder or easier. As far as older movies you should watch, in addition to the aforementioned To Be or Not to Be, I highly recommend the Buster Keaton short Sherlock, Jr. (1924), the Harold Lloyd film Safety Last! (1923), the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup (1933), and the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times (1936), just to get in some of the comedy greats. There are also lots of other great Humphrey Bogart performances to enjoy, such as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), and In a Lonely Place (1950). The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep also fall into a great rich genre known as film noir, which includes such classics as Double Indemnity (1944), Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), and Laura (1944). Lastly, I would also, of course, recommend some other general all-time classics, such as King Kong (1933), Citizen Kane (1941), and Godzilla (1954).

19:33 The charming actor who plays Captain Louis Renault is Claude Rains. I'd like to suggest watching his very different role as the villain vs. Errol Flynn in 1940's "The Sea Hawk." It's a spectacular production with great sets, costumes, action, and romance, and a climatic sword fight that has gotten high praise from modern fencing experts on RU-vid. Rains is great as a deliciously treacherous and conniving politician and a deadly physical combatant (the movie's choreographer said that Rains was one of the best fencers of any of the actors he had worked with).

Bogart's greatest performance is in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.He is also great in The Maltese Falcon

Them singing the French Anthem is even better when you know the lyrics call for the "rising of weapons by the citizens" and "spilling of impure blood to drench the fields"

Fun fact: When they made Casablanca, they had NO IDEA what they had on their hands. The studios were basically run like factories, churning out movies as quickly as possible to maximize profit. I guess you could argue that part of why there are so many great movies form that era is that the creatives got to just do their thing without studio interference, and the people who made all the creative decisions basically worked nonstop (getting their 10,000 hours in)--but while locked into draconian contracts that granted MUCH smaller salaries that you see now. Kinda like how The Beatles got as good as they were by playing live shows constantly for years--only with movies in the 40s all the talent is locked into a contract that made them keep working for peanuts after their projects become successful.

Actually Sam (Dooley Wilson) was singing live on set. But he wasn't playing piano. A man named Elliot Carpenter was playing the piano off screen and Wilson was sat in a position where he could imitate his movements. The piano sam "played" didn't make a sound.

I have been watching this film again and again for my whole life, but it was only last month that I realized that the movie was released during the war, and it has totally changed the way I think about the film. It's a cinematic masterpiece, and Ingred Bergman is certainly one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen, but I somehow never saw it as propaganda until I realized that the audience was at war when they were watching it. All those themes of self-sacrifice for a noble cause come through so much more powerfully when you think of the personal connection that the audience must have felt when Lazlo says that thousands will rise up, or when Rick says he doesn't care if London or New York are invaded.

There script was being written while the film was being shot. The final scene was delayed while they waited for pages. A second ending was written but this one played so well they went with this. The Nazis were played by people who escaped the Nazis, mostly German Jews.

It’s wild how many absolutely iconic lines this film has. What an all-time classic.

12:10 Battle of France was May 1940, fall of Paris is into June. So a year and a half Rick has been in Casablanca, if the rest of the film is December 1941.

"Everybody comes to Rick's" was the title of the unproduced play that they adapted for the screenplay. Such a classic, wonderful movie.

Ingrid Bergman was a lot taller then Bogart so there was some Masterful Camera Work done to make him look taller . Ingrid Bergman didn't want to make it she thought it was going to be a Romantic little movie . Nobody knew when it was being made and the timing of it how important a Movie it was . A lot of the cast were actually escaping the war when it was being made. Welcome to one of the Greatest Love story's of all time. More so welcome to one of the greatest Movies of all time.

Love this movie. Thanks to 12 angry men I discovered other classics and this is one of my favourites. Incredible acting and a wonderful script. Timeless

Another famous saying that no one seems to recognize. When Peter Lore is first approached to go with the police he says, “let me cash in my chips.” Which quickly became another way of saying someone has died.

Six of the AFI’s top 100 film quotes are in this movie. More than any other picture. Gin joints. Here’s lookin. Paris. Beautiful friendship. Play it. Suspects.

"What watch?" "Ten watch." is Anglicized German. "Was Uhr?" "Zehn Uhr."

Cool fact about Conrad Veidt the actor whom played Major Strasser. He was Cesare in the 1920 German Expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, he was the inspiration for the Joker in The Man Who Laughs, he was German, bisexual and married to a Jewish woman. When the Nazis told him to divorce his wife he told them to Eff off and fled to England before coming to Hollywood. He funded the British up until the US declared war. He told the producers of Casablanca that he would only play the role if he was allowed to make Strasser the most vile person ever. Died of a heart attack on the golf course shortly after Casablanca’s release.

The power of Casablanca is in good direction and editing, solid dialogue, and mostly quality performances. Bogie and Bergman, interestingly, were not even on the A-list of choices to play the characters. No one really wanted to be in the movie as it was a slipshod production of an average film script that wasn't even written at the time shooting started. It was written as the movie was being shot. But the underlying threads of good guys and bad guys, true love that wins over all, and redemption hit home for everyone. So many great films. Glad you enjoyed a classic.

Arthur "Dooley" Wilson plays Sam Rick's friend & club piano player/singer. He was singer/entertainer since childhood & veteran of theater & movies. Casablanca isnt Casablanca without Wilson.

This is my favorite movie, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! The worldbuilding in the details that makes the city a living breathing part of story is incredible.

Lol. I watched this last week. I've had a copy of this movie since we've been able to personally have movies. So well written with verbal fencing, quick barbs and snappy come backs. So many quotable lines. Major Strasser: "What is your nationality?" Rick: I'm a drunkard." One of my favorites!! This one has it all. Loyalty, romance, compassion, humor, intrigue, deception, sacrifice and a beautiful twist at the end. The Germans invade Poland in Sept. 1939, starting WWII. In May of 1940 they started on France and by going around the Maginot Line, were in Paris within a month. (sorry, history geek) Captain Renault is played by Claude Reins An 'A' list actor of the time.

America used to make such beautiful Films.

Basically, Rick is the USA before they entered the war, and then slowly because less neutral. June 1940 was when Paris was occupied. Alternative endings included having Ilsa stay with Rick (considered too risqué to have a woman leave her husband); having Rick killed as Ilsa and Victor escape (too grim); and killing Victor (too politically unsound). Even the actors didn't know the ending until the last moment. You need to watch The Cheap Detective, its a spoof on all the Boggart films and has a great cast.

You need to check The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre. It's a classic noir film and many people consider it to be the first of this genre.

It's just amazing how one of dozens of stock films produced by the studios with bought talent ended up being one of the greatest movies of all time. Everything came together perfectly to make this a special movie. The back story of it is just as amazing as the movie itself. Since they had very little budget, the airport scene was done with little people as the mechanics and a smaller model plane. They used a forced perspective to make the backgrounds appear larger. It all worked. Thanks for reacting! Great movie.

A movie that holds up to this day, even if one doesn't have any knowledge of the details of the time. One of the most quoted movies, historically, and an amazing cast. This is my all-time favorite movies, and I've got more than five decades of watching movies.

I have watched this so many times and it never gets old and I see more things in it every time. Louis is such a great character and Ingrid is so stunning!

This has great dialogue and some of the greatest actors in history

The song "As Time Goes By" is the Warner Brothers theme song, used in their logo beginning movies for many years. This is the greatest movie the studio ever produced

In most states of the US, the age you can marry is lower than the age you are permitted to drink.

a stone cold classic! Such a great screenplay and great acting. Other Bogart you should see - The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Also, Hitchcock's Notorious which has Ingrid Bergman. Have you guys done Citizen Kane on the channel yet? Another to add if not.

why do i get the impression simone's demeanor is far more innocent than what lies beneath lmao

This has been at the top of my Top 5 since I saw it at 16 while skipping school. Beautiful, complex and intense film. And the adults in it adult so well. Bergman had no idea who she would be leaving with at the end, and so had to play it both ways--which makes her performance so perfect. Lazlo seeming to be this paragon of revolutionary activity, but Ilsa is his weakness and his strength. Rick, who is no paragon because he's too willing to walk near the moral line, shattered by Ilsa leaving, redeemed by her return. Ilsa, loving one man with passion and the other with admiration. Lazlo's "death" allows her to find passion, his resurrection calling her back to marriage and the struggle. And they pick their way through the rubble of these lives, searching for solid footing, and wanting to maintain their ability to love, to sympathize, to stay the people they want to be able to look at in a mirror. Adults. And around them, the swirl of a city not expecting to be free from the Nazis much longer. The flood of desperate people driven by fear, wanting only to get out, away, to peace. And those like Ugarte and Renault, who feed off their desperation. Everyone finding a way to live with what they have done, what they are doing. Just such a movie for grown-ups.

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