The Communist cultural revolution in America is almost complete.
Out with the old, in with the new.
“The Communist cultural revolution in America is almost complete.”
Yep.
People don’t even realize it.
The “hero” (Rick) fought for the communists in Spain. Along with other movies (Sahara/1943, Guns of Navarrone/1961), “Casablanca” wanted to maintain the myth that Franco was the Devil and he’d beaten the “good guys”. Casablanca and Sahara also maintained the illusion that the US and France were allies; the hundreds of US & British dead from the invasion of North Africa would disagree.
This movie should be consigned to the dustbin of history as the wartime propaganda it was.
Rick, Bogart's character, was a lefty who fought in Spain.
One of the screen writers went on to write Mission to Moscow and was blacklisted.
Casablanca and the Marx Brothers had a huge following with 60s college kids, often radicals.
Maybe it was a matter of a generation picking something from their parents' generation and taking it up.
Something similar happened with Sha-Na-Na and American Grafitti in the 1970s and with the Rat Pack back in the 1990s.
When you grow older the next generation isn't going get enthusiastic about something from their grandparents' day.