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Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
(1942)
98min
U Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Andrew Collins
Like
Citizen Kane
and
Gone with the Wind
, this 1942 classic has been dissected to within an inch of its life. The reason
Casablanca
endures is that it's a timeless love story wrapped inside a gripping wartime thriller, written with such wit and meaning that it's still quoted (and misquoted) decades later. Humphrey Bogart gives a career-best performance as Rick, the cynical, expat nightclub owner, whose seemingly apolitical stance is rocked by the appearance of Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and Ilsa Lund (the luminous Ingrid Bergman). Ilsa is Rick's old flame - cue misty-eyed flashbacks of their time together in Paris and requests for Dooley Wilson to play
As Time Goes By
. Memorable support comes from Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt and Claude Rains, and Max Steiner's score is superb, but the final credit must go to director Michael Curtiz, who pieces it all together with verve, symbolism and torrid emotion. It may never carry the same impact as it did for post-Pearl Harbor Americans, but it still transfixes, from the first rounding up of the "usual suspects".
Summary
The American expat owner of a Moroccan nightclub is reunited with his old flame during the Second World War. Now married to a Czech freedom fighter, she needs his help to get them safely out of the country before they are captured by the Nazis - but the former lovers also have to wrestle the temptation to rekindle their simmering romance. Drama, with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and Paul Henreid.
Cast & Crew
Rick Blaine
Humphrey Bogart
Ilsa Lund
Ingrid Bergman
Victor Laszlo
Paul Henreid
Louis Renault
Claude Rains
Major Strasser
Conrad Veidt
Ferrari
Sydney Greenstreet
Ugarte
Peter Lorre
Carl
S Z Sakall
Yvonne
Madeleine Lebeau
Sam
Dooley Wilson
Annina Brandel
Joy Page
Berger
John Qualen
Sascha
Leonid Kinskey
Dark European
Curt Bois
Director
Michael Curtiz
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Other Information
Language:
English
Black and white
Theatrical distributor:
Park Circus
Available on:
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Released on:
10 Feb 2012
Drama
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