Good Old Classics...Casablanca

 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 minutes
Genre:  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

Trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJvlGh_FgcI