Casablanca (70th Anniversary) (Blu-ray) PG
They had a date with fate in Casablanca!
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- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 1, 2012
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Warner Home Video
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:
"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:
Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart provide the chemistry that sets this apart from countless other tales of doomed wartime love affairs.
Sight and Sound
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
...One of the most perfect Hollywood movies ever made...
Entertainment Weekly
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
...Absolutely sound, rock-solid in its use of Hollywood studio craftsmanship....The black-and-white cinematography has not aged as color would. The dialogue is so spare and cynical it has not grown old-fashioned...
Chicago Sun-Times
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
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
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.
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