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Casablanca

  • 19421942
  • PGPG
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
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Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart 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.
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
562K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
321
686
  • Director
    • Michael Curtiz
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Howard Koch(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Humphrey Bogart
    • Ingrid Bergman
    • Paul Henreid
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  • Director
    • Michael Curtiz
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Howard Koch(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Humphrey Bogart
    • Ingrid Bergman
    • Paul Henreid
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    • 1.4KUser reviews
    • 213Critic reviews
    • 100Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #42
    • Won 3 Oscars
      • 10 wins & 9 nominations total

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    Top cast

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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(screenplay)
      • Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
      • Howard Koch(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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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
      When Rick and Sam get on the train after standing in the rain, their coats are completely dry.
    • Quotes

      Rick: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.

    • 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

    User reviews1.4K

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    Top review
    Of all the classics in all the films in all the world, this is the best!
    This is a film that MUST belong in every video collection in the U.S. is not in the world. The stories about it's making are legendary from the constant rewrites to the apocrypha of casting stories.

    What is amazing to me, and the reason I believe it holds audiences almost spellbound in successive viewings, is the connection with the horrors of World War II was almost every single cast member. Sidney Greenstreet had lost a son in combat, and a number of the cast members fled Europe to escape the ravages of a Hitler regime. Even the evil Nazi character Major Strasser (played with relish by Conrad Veidt) had left Nazi Germany to escape almost sure internment and possible death in a concentration camp. Here was a man who was a legend in German film history as the murdering somnambulist (a possible warning about the Nazi soldiers to come?) and because of the vicious anti-Semitism and racism of the Germany of the '30s and '40s, we in America and in Hollywood were given a great gift.

    Everyone in this film is fabulous, but it is the chemistry of Rick (Bogart) and Ilsa (Bergman) been truly holds the film together. When I saw this film almost frame by frame in the limited book series of classic films that were produced in the late 1960s, I was stunned by the subtlety of facial expressions that conveyed so much of Rick Blaine's character by a marvelous actor Humphrey Bogart. There is a reason why he was named the actor of the century.

    While every person in the film becomes a real flesh and blood presence, the story of Rick and Ilsa is the center of this cinema feast.

    I must confess that I have seen this picture so many times that I can recite every single line in the movie to the consternation of my wife who can't watch it with me anymore.

    The line that sticks out the most for me, and which against cheers from New Yorkers whenever it plays in the theater. It is when Bogart says to the Nazis seated at his table, "There are parts of New York I wouldn't advise you to invade." And what makes this line so memorable is that Humphrey Bogart did indeed star in another motion picture for Warner Brothers where that very thing formed the basis for the script. That movie was "All Through The Night." I love this movie too, and I'm not even a New Yorker.

    There have been many attempts to revisit "Casablanca," but only the original makes you really feel what it was like to live through "The Good War" in a faraway place like Casablanca in French Morocco.

    Even though such trickery as midget airport workers, fog machines and cardboard cutout airplanes were utilized, this film convinces through its beautiful story with many layers, and characters that are so well realized.

    If you've never seen this movie before, shame on you and see it immediately. If you only seen it once, I believe you will come back to it more than once. This is just about the most perfect film ever made and it is a miracle that that is so considering that there were so many hands in the pie. (Excuse me for my mixing my metaphors. It's late, and I get emotional just thinking about this classic film masterpiece.)

    Play it again and again and again and again, Sam.
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    FAQ4

    • Was Ronald Reagan originally cast as Rick?
    • What exactly are "letters of transit"?
    • Is the character Victor Laszlo's name mispronounced?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 23, 1943 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • German
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Everybody Comes to Rick's
    • Filming locations
      • Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
    • 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
      • $4,497,613
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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

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