Casablanca is a 1942 American wartime romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick’s, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.
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Casablanca is a 1942 American wartime romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick’s, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. The film was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. Exceeding expectations, Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for writing the Best Adapted Screenplay. Its lead characters, memorable lines, and pervasive theme song have all become iconic, and it consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history. It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. It was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, but no one involved with its production expected it to be anything other than one of the hundreds of ordinary pictures produced by Hollywood that year. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, he ran guns to Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Rick’s Café Américain attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and German officials, refugees desperate to reach the neutral U.S. and those who prey on them. Former lover Ilsa Lund enters his establishment and asks him to play \”As Time Goes By\”. Rick storms over, furious that Sam disobeyed his order never to perform that song. She is accompanied by her husband, Victor Laszlo, a renowned, fugitive Czech Resistance leader. They need the letters to escape to America to continue his work. Rick refuses to sell them at any price, telling his wife to ask his business rival to sell the letters. When he confronts her in the café, she threatens him with a gun, then drowns out the crowd. Rick then tells her to give the letters back to the Germans, which he does on the pretext of suddenly discovering there is a group of officers in the house singing Die Wacht am Marseillaise. When the band looks at Rick, he nods his head, then starts singing, first alone, then with the crowd and everyone joins in drowning out the Germans. Rick does not want to give them the letters, but when he discovers they are from a Czech resistance leader, he refuses to give her the money. He then gives them to the police, who arrest him. Rick is then forced to leave the club and go back to his wife, who he has been with all his life. He later finds out that she is pregnant with his third child.
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