[Erasmus]

I think this flick was the inspiration for “Casablanca.”

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The film “The Battle for Algiers” is also a classic - apparently used as a handbook for revolutionaries. I’ve always wanted to see it but have never gotten a chance.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I think this flick was the inspiration for “Casablanca.”

I thought you were crazy so I looked it up on TCM. You are sane.

It took no less than six writers to transform Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's un-produced play 'Everybody Comes to Rick' into Casablanca, taking a conventional exotic romance (patterned after Algiers (1938) and Only Angels Have Wings, 1939) and investing it with a subtle, richly-textured brand of drama all its own.

[Publius]

"Algiers" was based on a 1937 French film, "Pepe le Moko", starring Jean Gabin. Warners shot "Algiers" pretty much in the same order, with Charles Boyer in the Jean Gabin role.

A few years later, Mel Blanc was horsing around in the Warners cartoon studio when he came up with a dead-on impersonation of Boyer and his signature line from "Algiers": "Come with me to the Casbah, and we will make beautiful music together." The producers took a bit of time to come up with a character for Blanc's latest creation, but eventually Pepe le Pew was born.