Neither, she was on the rebound from Ugarte.
Posted on 03/03/2020 2:09:02 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Every Saturday, 6 or 7 of us kids (age 10-7) would walk the B&M RR tracks about 4-miles into town and pay our precious dime to see if "his plunge to a certain death" the previous Saturday had been miraculously avoided...
Since the movie got out at about the same time the loaded coal train from Boston came through town very slowly trying to gather speed, the other part of our regular Saturday was hopping the side of some of the train cars, riding most of the way back home, and then jumping off before it got going too fast...
Holy cow what a beautiful woman Ingrid Bergman was!
It still works.
LOL!
I see what you did there.
There have been 2 attempts at a tv series about Rick and his place in Casablanca. One in 1955 with Charles McGraw as Rick and in 1982 with David Soul. Neither is considered great as the movie was too indelible in the mind of the public. They are probably more prequel than sequel.
What I never understood was why , throughout the whole movie Conrad Veidt, “Major Strasser’’ is dressed in a Luftwaffe uniform.
But, but what about poor Major Strasser! Guy was just doing his job!
Speaking of Casablanca, I watched it for the 1st time last week. There was a song that Rick and Ilsa danced to that I had been trying to ID, for years. Perfidia turns out is the title.
A version of Perfidia used to have a snippet on a commercial on TV, I know its a long shot but does anyone else remember it and know whose cover of it that I’m speaking of?
Claude Rains stole the show.
“but as an actual story, uh, not so much. “
It is a bit shallow on the plot, but it gives a very picture on what was going on in the world at the time.
The scene where the crown sings La Marseillaise to the Germans is powerful. That scene seemed very real ad showed bravery.
Neither, she was on the rebound from Ugarte.
It came out slightly after Pearl Harbor, but was probably filmed after Hitler turned on Stalin, and American communists were told to get America to fight Germany.
I read somewhere that most of the extras in the bar scene when they all join in singing “La Marseillaise” were refugees from Nazi-held countries. For them, it was personal.
I enjoyed the “prequel/sequel” “As Time Goes By” by Michael Walsh.
https://archive.org/details/astimegoesbynove00wals
It’s not perfect, but every few pages he does a great job making you hear the character’s’ voices.
Ilsa: I wasn’t sure you were the same. Let’s see, the last time we met was...
Rick: La Belle Aurore.
Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
Rick: Not an easy day to forget.
Ilsa: No.
Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
I’m 66 and THAT STILL GETS ME.
Whenever I'm checking out the keyboard on a computer, the thing I end up typing is the opening narration, "With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas..."
#66 It is the look Ilsa gives him when he says the line.
#96....
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