In the ‘60 when I was in college the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, just off Hahvud Squayah ran CasaB continuously to the exclusion of all else for at least a decade. Only God knows how many prints they wore out.
It’s right up there for me..
The best is:
“The Best Years of Our Lives”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfM_1RirWY
I don’t know what is the greatest film ever made, but Casablanca is right up there in the Top Ten, IMO...
Not necessarily the best, but surely one of the greatest.
One of the most incredible assemblies of actors in film history, and made even better by the longtime rumor (more than that, I think) that some of the dialogue was “made up as they went along.” It’s still fresh, and moving, and pretty much everything you might want it to be.
Bogart and Bergman are both fantastic. And Claude Rains is just perfect. More than anyone, he deserved the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He’s a gem.
I would add that second-place in my Best Supporting Actor pantheon is Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in “Tombstone.” It truly is a stain on Hollywood that he wasn’t even nominated.
“Casablanca” is very high on the list, but I would put “Kings Row” above it.
They were prohibited from filming at night on a real runway, due to the war, and had to film in a studio - hence the work around.
Coming to the theaters March 5 and 8.
https://www.fathomevents.com/series/fathoms-big-screen-classics
This is a movie that should be watched on the big screen. Get your tickets while the best seats are available.
Good but not best
GOAT movie ping
Casablanca is one of those movie that I’ve always wanted to see but somehow never got around to it. I want to remedy that thanks to this article. Appreciate your posting it :-)
Touch of Evil is a close second.
I finally watched Casablanca last week for the first time. It’s a pretty good movie.
I was 10 at the time and my brother & I only paid 10 cents to see the latest Captain Midnight chapter...
Casablanca didn’t interest me until 15 years later when I went to see it (in a drive-in theatre) with the girl who (a couple of years later) became my wife (and still is)...
Have watched it many, many times since then...
A reminder of what true acting used to be all about...
I thought ugh they were going to say citizen Kane
Casablanca. Ya it’s a good one
That’s a strange way to spell The Karate Kid.
I thought Citizen Kane was a stinker. Touch of Evil also bad. I’m not a big Orson Wells fan. Casablanca was just OK, but not great.
A few of my favorites include: Patton, Court Jester, Big Country, Judgment at Nuremberg, They Died with Their Boots On, Hobson’s Choice, Apollo 13, Europa Europa and Saving Private Ryan.
I liked Bogart better in the African Queen, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the Caine Mutiny.
It is one of the best.