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Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Paul Henreid
Claude Rains
Peter Lorre
Dooley Wilson

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Set in Africa during the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart stars as a man with a past trying to hide the past. He meets his former lover at his own bar as things begin to complicate.

10/07/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

A bonafide classic!!!!!

If ever a film deserved to be considered a classic then this is it, even if you haven't seen it before you'll recognise much of the dialogue; it is probably the most quoted, and misquoted, film of all time. Humphrey Bogart is excellent in this career defining role as bar owner Rick Blaine who has come into possession of two "letters of transit" which guarantee the holders unhindered passage out of Casablanca. He has these as Ugarte, the man who asked him to look after them, was captured by the Vichy French police before he could get them back. Ugarte had been planning to sell the documents to Victor Laszlo, a Czech nationalist who is fleeing from Nazi occupied Europe to the United States via neutral Portugal. Things are complicated by the fact that Laszlo's wife Ilsa had a relationship wi...

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3.5/4 

06/02/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

This may be the finest piece of drama ever.

The lost art of turning one simple historical contingency into a touching and endearing work of moral and ethical being is alive and well here. This cannot be duplicated, remade, or easily xeroxed as many immitators have tried. This may be the finest piece of political drama ever via the beyond superb acting, plot, and development through Curtiz's genius lense.

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4/4 

01/18/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

casablanca

An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up. During World War II, Casablanca, Morocco is a waiting point for throngs of desperate refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Exit visas, which are necessary to leave the country, are at a premium, so when two German couriers carrying letters of transit signed by General DeGaulle are murdered and the letters stolen, German Major Strasser and Louis Renault, the prefecture of police, are eager to find the documents. Strasser is particularly concerned that the letters not be sold to Victor Lazlo, the well-known Czech resistance leader, who is rumored to be on his way to Casablanca. That night, Renault and Strasser search for the killer at Rick's Café Americain, a popular nightclub run by the myster...

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4/4