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Casablanca

  • 1942
  • PG
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
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Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)
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A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

  • Director
    • Michael Curtiz
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein
    • Philip G. Epstein
    • Howard Koch
  • Stars
    • Humphrey Bogart
    • Ingrid Bergman
    • Paul Henreid
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.5/10
    583K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    809
    47
    • Director
      • Michael Curtiz
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein
      • Philip G. Epstein
      • Howard Koch
    • Stars
      • Humphrey Bogart
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Paul Henreid
    • 1.5KUser reviews
    • 233Critic reviews
    • 100Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #43
    • Won 3 Oscars
      • 13 wins & 9 nominations total

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    Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart
    • Rick Blaine
    Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman
    • Ilsa Lund
    Paul Henreid
    Paul Henreid
    • Victor Laszlo
    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • Captain Louis Renault
    Conrad Veidt
    Conrad Veidt
    • Major Heinrich Strasser
    Sydney Greenstreet
    Sydney Greenstreet
    • Signor Ferrari
    Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre
    • Ugarte
    S.Z. Sakall
    S.Z. Sakall
    • Carl
    • (as S.K. Sakall)
    Madeleine Lebeau
    Madeleine Lebeau
    • Yvonne
    • (as Madeleine LeBeau)
    Dooley Wilson
    Dooley Wilson
    • Sam
    Joy Page
    Joy Page
    • Annina Brandel
    John Qualen
    John Qualen
    • Berger
    Leonid Kinskey
    Leonid Kinskey
    • Sascha
    Curt Bois
    Curt Bois
    • Pickpocket
    Abdullah Abbas
    • Arab
    • (uncredited)
    Enrique Acosta
    • Guest at Rick's
    • (uncredited)
    Ed Agresti
    • Bar Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Arnet Amos
    • French Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    • Director
      • Michael Curtiz
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein
      • Philip G. Epstein
      • Howard Koch
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Many of the actors who played the Nazis were in fact German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany.
    • Goofs
      (at around 37 mins) When Rick is getting drunk he ask Sam, "It's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?" After Sam replies, "My watch stopped," he goes on to say, "I'll bet they're asleep in New York. I'll bet they're asleep all over America." However, Rick is not referring to the actual time (noted by giving a month and year rather than a time) and is actually making reference to, in pre-Pearl Harbor America, most Americans are "asleep" when it comes to the war and fighting the Axis powers. This is an intentional attempt at a poetic reference, not a statement of fact.
    • Quotes

      Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?

      Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.

      Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.

      Rick: I was misinformed.

    • Alternate versions
      As late as 1974, the references to an extra-marital affair were banned in Ireland. The Irish cut got rid of two important sequences. First, after Ilsa tells Rick that she had left him after finding out that Viktor was still alive, the embraces and dialogue that followed were cut. Second, the emotional dialogue at the end of the film from Ilsa's line "You're saying that only to make me go" to Rick's line "What I've got to do, you haven't any part of". This led to Irish audiences' being bemused by the relationship between Rick and Ilsa, and often interpreting Rick's final speech beginning "I'm no good at being noble" as a reflection on the debilitating effects of war.
    • Connections
      Edited into 77 Sunset Strip: The Secret of Adam Cain (1959)
    • Soundtracks
      La Marseillaise
      (1792) (uncredited)

      Written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

      Arranged by Max Steiner

      Played during the opening credits

      Sung by Madeleine Lebeau and others at Rick's

      Variations played often in the score

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    10/10
    The Fundamental Things Apply...
    "Casablanca" remains Hollywood's finest moment, a film that succeeds on such a vast scale not because of anything experimental or deliberately earthshaking in its design, but for the way it cohered to and reaffirmed the movie-making conventions of its day. This is the film that played by the rules while elevating the form, and remains the touchstone for those who talk about Hollywood's greatness.

    It's the first week in December, 1941, and in the Vichy-controlled African port city of Casablanca, American ex-pat Rick Blaine runs a gin joint he calls "Rick's Cafe Americaine." Everybody comes to Rick's, including thieves, spies, Nazis, partisans, and refugees trying to make their way to Lisbon and, eventually, America. Rick is a tough, sour kind of guy, but he's still taken for a loop when fate hands him two sudden twists: A pair of unchallengeable exit visas, and a woman named Ilsa who left him broken-hearted in Paris and now needs him to help her and her resistance-leader husband escape.

    Humphrey Bogart is Rick and Ingrid Bergman is Ilsa, in roles that are archetypes in film lore. They are great parts besides, very multilayered and resistant to stereotype, and both actors give career performances in what were great careers. He's mad at her for walking out on him, while she wants him to understand her cause, but there's a lot going on underneath with both, and it all spills out in a scene in Rick's apartment that is one of many legendary moments.

    "Casablanca" is a great romance, not only for being so supremely entertaining with its humor and realistic-though-exotic wartime excitement, but because it's not the least bit mushy. Take the way Rick's face literally breaks when he first sees Ilsa in his bar, or how he recalls the last time he saw her in Paris: "The Germans wore gray, you wore blue." There's a real human dimension to these people that makes us care for them and relate to them in a way that belies the passage of years.

    For me, and many, the most interesting relationship in the movie is Rick and Capt. Renault, the police prefect in Casablanca who is played by Claude Rains with a wonderful subtlety that builds as the film progresses. Theirs is a relationship of almost perfect cynicism, one-liners and professions of neutrality that provide much humor, as well as give a necessary display of Rick's darker side before and after Ilsa's arrival.

    But there's so much to grab onto with a film like this. You can talk about the music, or the way the setting becomes a living character with its floodlights and Moorish traceries. Paul Henreid is often looked at as a bit of a third wheel playing the role of Ilsa's husband, but he manages to create a moral center around which the rest of the film operates, and his enigmatic relationship with Rick and especially Ilsa, a woman who obviously admires her husband but can't somehow ever bring herself to say she loves him, is something to wonder at.

    My favorite bit is when Rick finds himself the target of an entreaty by a Bulgarian refugee who just wants Rick's assurance that Capt. Renault is "trustworthy," and that, if she does "a bad thing" to secure her husband's happiness, it would be forgivable. Rick flashes on Ilsa, suppresses a grimace, tries to buy the woman off with a one-liner ("Go back to Bulgaria"), then finally does a marvelous thing that sets the whole second half of the film in motion without much calling attention to itself.

    It's not fashionable to discuss movie directors after Chaplin and before Welles, but surely something should be said about Michael Curtiz, who not only directed this film but other great features like "Captain Blood" and "Angels With Dirty Faces." For my money, his "Adventures Of Robin Hood" was every bit "Casablanca's" equal, and he even found time the same year he made "Casablanca" to make "Yankee Doodle Dandy." When you watch a film like this, you aren't so much aware of the director, but that's really a testament to Curtiz's artistry. "Casablanca" is not only exceptionally well-paced but incredibly well-shot, every frame feeling well-thought-out and legendary without distracting from the overall story.

    Curtiz was a product of the studio system, not a maverick like Welles or Chaplin, but he found greatness just as often, and "Casablanca," also a product of the studio system, is the best example. It's a film that reminds us why we go back to Hollywood again and again when we want to refresh our imaginations, and why we call it "the dream factory." As the hawker of linens tells Ilsa at the bazaar, "You won't find a treasure like this in all Morocco." Nor, for that matter, in all the world.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 23, 1943 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • German
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Everybody Comes to Rick's
    • Filming locations
      • Waterman Drive, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA(airport runway)
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $950,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $4,219,709
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $181,494
      • Apr 12, 1992
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,626,760
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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