CASABLANCA
It’s one of the most talked about and popular movies in Hollywood
history. A story of love, sacrifice and
war. The movie made on a small budget
and practically shot in a studio made history because of the outstanding acting
of Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and the supporting cast. Brilliant direction
by Micheal Curtiz and excellent and well
edited script, all winning Oscars.
Directed
by Michael Curtiz
Produced
by Hal B. Wallis
Screenplay
by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Based
on Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray
Burnett, Joan Alison
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Music
by Max Steiner
Cinematography
Arthur Edeson
Editing
by Owen Marks
Studio
: Warner Bros.
Release
dates: November 26, 1942 (premiere); January 23, 1943 (general release)
Running
time; 102 minutesGenre: Romance, Drama
Rating: ****
Famous Lines:
Rick:
Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for
both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one
thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa:
But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick:
Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look
forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a
concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain
Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa:
You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick:
I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with
Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane
leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today.
Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa:
But what about us?
Rick:
We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca.
We got it back last night.
Ilsa:
When I said I would never leave you.
Rick:
And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't
follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at
being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little
people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll
understand that.
[Ilsa
lowers her head and begins to cry]
Rick:
Now, now...
[Rick
gently places his hand under her chin and raises it so their eyes meet]
Rick:
Here's looking at you kid
