Posted on 11/02/2013 5:58:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog
It features in one of the most famous movie scenes of all time - and now it could be yours.
The car in which Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman's characters travelled in to the airport for Casablanca's immortal finale is going under the hammer next month.
The 1940 Buick Phaeton - which belonged to Bogart's character Rick Blaine in the 1942 film - is expected to fetch $500,000 (£312,000) at auction in New York on November 25.
It is among a number of iconic movie props and costumes being sold off as part of the Dreams Are Made of This auction at Bonhams.
This car looms large in the final act of Casablanca: Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault drives the car to the airport at gunpoint, with Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in the front, and Ingrid Bergman playinng Isla Lund and Paul Henried as Victor Laszlo in the back seat.
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Rick: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
Captain Renault: That is my least vulnerable spot.
Ahem.
good luck!
(If you win, can I have a ride?)
Also up for sale for about the same price in the Lotus Espris from “The Spy Who Loved Me”. Bonus: It’s also a fully functionl submarine.
Mmmm. I doubt it.
beauty personified... 
Yep, fantastic movie! That was the "beginning of a beautiful friendship" for me and Casablanca.
When the original negative was digitally repaired then reprinted, I saw its first showing at midnight, with a theatre full of fellow fanatical fans. Many of them recited the lines throughout, with the group getting larger during the more famous scenes. It was kind of like an AME church service.
The tower shot was apparently the Glendale airport, some of the other exteriors were from Van Nuys airport, but all the final scenes with actors were shot on stage at Warners. If you look closely at the car photo, you can see the wood floor.
There’s also a laughingly awful rear projection shot in the scene.
I once attended a lecture by one of the original lighting personnel on the film, who pointed out that Curtiz wanted to reinforce the feeling that the characters were all trapped in Casablanca, and one of the things the crew came up with was using gobos (patterns in front of lights) in the shape of cell bars. You can see the shadows from them a lot on the walls in the Rick’s scenes.
Man, those were the days when black and white was a real art form, almost every shot in the film is a great still, particularly the Bogie cigarette shots.
One of my least successful dates was taking a German girl to Casablanca. Somehow she failed to appreciate it. Why the hell I thought she would mystifies me to this day. Ah, youth!
PAUL HENREID was excellent in that movie! Good actor.
Yes, he was.
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