Casablanca
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 15, 2000
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart | |
Performer: | Alberto Morin, George Meeker, Creighton Hale, Frank Puglia, Dooley Wilson, Gino Corrado, Ludwig Stössel, Martin Garralaga, Peter Lorre, Paul Porcasi, Monte Blue, Leon Belasco, Dan Seymour, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Joy Page, Olaf Hytten, S.Z. Sakall, Madeline Lebeau, Marcel Dalio, John Qualen, Curt Bois, Claude Rains, Helmut Dantine, Hans Von Twardowski, Torben Meyer, Leonid Kinskey & Norma Varden | |
Directed by | Michael Curtiz | |
Edited by | Owen Marks | |
Screenwriting by | Howard Koch, Philip G. Epstein & Julius J. Epstein | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Carl Jules Weyl | |
Produced by | Hal B. Wallis | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Edeson |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"We'll always have Paris."
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
"Here's looking at you, kid."
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
"Round up the usual suspects."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1943 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Howard Koch & Julius J. Epstein
Academy Awards 1943 -
Best Director: Michael Curtiz
Academy Awards 1943 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1942 -
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Hal B. Wallis
Entertainment Reviews:
Certainly a more accomplished cast of players cannot be imagined, and their direction by Michael Curtiz is inspired.
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Hollywood Reporter
Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart provide the chemistry that sets this apart from countless other tales of doomed wartime love affairs.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Stride after stride, scene after scene, moment after moment, everything comes together and everything is right.
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Every Movie Has a Lesson
Rating: 3/5 --
The film is at its best in its opening moments as the chaos of Casablanca, the city, is conveyed.
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: 5/5 --
There are some of the very finest character actors that Warner Brothers could muster and a rich, detailed screenplay studded with an indecent number of sparklingly quotable lines. It is a movie to play again, and again.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Casablanca is one of the most exciting melodramas the screen has ever produced. And it is mature, intelligently conceived, and, within the limits of melodrama, honest.
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Esquire Magazine
Casablanca is one of the indisputable peaks of the American film industry. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz's (THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, YANKEE DOODLE DANDY) classic love story. Colorful characters abound in Casablanca, a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler's war-torn Europe. Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis. When his long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), surfaces in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them. The question is, will he'
Top-notch performances include Claude Rains as the chief of the French police and the major authority figure in Unoccupied France, Peter Lorre as the doomed Senor Ugarte, Sydney Greenstreet as Senor Ferrari, and Dooley Wilson as Rick's loyal friend and the café's pianist, Sam. The mesmerizing musical score, by Max Steiner, along with the well-structured plot, flawless acting, and unforgettable dialogue makes this one of the best films of all time.
Top-notch performances include Claude Rains as the chief of the French police and the major authority figure in Unoccupied France, Peter Lorre as the doomed Senor Ugarte, Sydney Greenstreet as Senor Ferrari, and Dooley Wilson as Rick's loyal friend and the café's pianist, Sam. The mesmerizing musical score, by Max Steiner, along with the well-structured plot, flawless acting, and unforgettable dialogue makes this one of the best films of all time.
Keywords:
Classic
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Romance
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Suspense
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Tear Jerker
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Thriller
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World War II
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Betrayal
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Love Story
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Recommended
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Character Study
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Infidelity
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- UPC: 012569500822
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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