My all-time favorite movie.
Watched it last week....
Great movie, watch it often, was getting a root canal once and they put it on the TV for me to watch - when the singing between the German soldiers and the French supporters singing the Marseillaise breaks out I tear up every time, the dentist stopped and asked if I needed more pain killer.
Well, whaddya know. I didn’t know about a tv show based on it in the 80s...
Great movie but The Big Sleep is better.
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Watched Bogart in Sahara last night on Amazon Prime. Not exactly Casablanca, but a pretty decent WWII flick from 1943.
I have a soft spot for the WWII movies made prior to 1945 when nobody was sure yet how things were going to end.
"As Time Goes By" is a great tune. It reminds the listener that although the 1930's may be a high-tech era, human nature remains unchanged despite scientific breakthroughs and technological advancements.
As Time Goes By--Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees (1931)
As far as remakes, Peter Falk did a spoof movie of the Bogart movies and had a few scenes that played on Casablanca. It was a pretty funny movie, maybe by Mel Brooks.
Almost universally women say this is their favorite Bogart film.
Mean almost always have a different film as their favorite...Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre, African Queen, To have and have not, The Big Sleep.
There are so many.
Rhere’s an interesting poic online .........showing TRUMP.45! as Bogart/CasaBlanca...”The Beginning of a beautiful Friendship”
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Buddy just returned from Morocco and I asked him yesterday if he had a drink at Rick’s in Casablanca. He said he asked but there is no Rick’s in Casablanca, and never was!
Madeleine LeBeau, who played Yvonne, Rick's edgy girlfriend was in real life married to Marcel Dalio,
the croupier. Dalio sued her for divorce (alienation of affection) after the movie was finished.
The plane in the final tarmac scene was hastily thrown together on a limited budget.....it as not a full-size plane.
So they hired midgets to act as on-screen airplane personnel to make the plane seem larger than it really was.
A wonderful film that is all the more beautiful because it is filmed in black and white, which highlights the film’s dramatic tension.
They’re doing a remake with Jay-Z and Beyonce, it’s gonna be dope yo.
There has never been a remake
Bogart does an amazing job in this movie. His character at the start is callous and cynical. A man who trusts nobody and who, in his own words “I stick my neck out for nobody” which we see illustrated in the sharpest way possible right up front. Then in walks his old flame, the woman that broke him and who now wants his help saving her new lovers life. The way he deals with that, comes to terms with it is just fantastic. Fantastic writing, amazing acting, great cinematography. It all comes together in this film.
A great movie.
Rick was a gentleman to the end.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
There are so many great lines of dialogue but my favorite remains...
Renault: I’ve often speculated why you don’t return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a Senator’s wife? I like to think that you killed a man. It’s the romantic in me.
Rick: It’s a combination of all three.
Renault: And what in Heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.