Casablanca (70th Anniversary) PG
They had a date with fate in Casablanca!
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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Released: May 1, 2012
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Michael Curtiz The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
- Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
- Introduction by Lauren Bacall
- 2 Separate Commentaries: Roger Ebert and Film Historian Rudy Behlmer
- Theatrical Trailers
- Dual Layer
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman & Paul Henreid | |
| Performer: | Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, S.Z. Sakall, Madeline Lebeau, Joy Page, John Qualen, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois, Leon Belasco, Monte Blue, Gino Corrado, Marcel Dalio, Helmut Dantine, Martin Garralaga, Creighton Hale, Olaf Hytten, George Meeker, Torben Meyer, Alberto Morin, Paul Porcasi, Frank Puglia, Dan Seymour, Ludwig Stössel, Norma Varden & Hans Von Twardowski | |
| Directed by | Michael Curtiz | |
| Edited by | Owen Marks | |
| Screenwriting by | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch | |
| Composition by | Max Steiner | |
| Art Direction by | Carl Jules Weyl | |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis | |
| Director of Photography: | Arthur Edeson |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Here's looking at you, kid."
- Humphrey Bogart (Rick) to Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa) at least three times during the course of the film
"Only one answer can take care of all our questions."
- Ilsa just before kissing Rick
"But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris." "Not an easy day to forget. I remember every detail--the Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
- Interchange between Rick and Ilsa at his cafe after seeing each other for the first time in years
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
- Rick about Ilsa
"We'll always have Paris."
"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:
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Moments of high tension and suspense punctuate the action with the most thrilling moment when in Rick's cafe a group of Free French men drown out Nazi voices by singing the "Marseillaise." Picture is acted with distinction by a fine cast.
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Washington Star
Casablanca is one of the indisputable peaks of the American film industry. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
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
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)
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: 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
An entertaining adventure story played against the colorful background of the cosmopolitan city that has become an important stop on the timetable of the European refugee.
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New York Daily News
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
Production Notes:
- CASABLANCA was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
- "As Time Goes By," the song that became this film's anthem, not to mention theme song, was originally written for the Broadway musical EVERYBODY'S WELCOME, which opened on October 13, 1931 and ran for 139 performances. The composer, Herman Hupfeld, was also known for the song "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba."
- The film's producer, Hal B. Wallis, was awarded the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1943.
- In his 1995 memoir MY AMERICAN JOURNEY, General Colin Powell lists CASABLANCA as one of his favorite films.
- Additional credits: Hugh MacMullan (dialogue director), Robert Aisner (technical adviser).
- Copyright 1943 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
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