However, despite studio resistance, they left to work on Frank Capra's Why We Fight series early in 1942. A tortuous refugee path brought people to Casablanca, where they would search for an exit visa for Portugal. (uncredited), Englishman Questioning Casino's Honesty But it's Bogart and Bergman's show, entering immortality as screen lovers reunited only to part. [175] It was briefly available on home video. : Casablanca", "Best Movie Lines That Have Stuck In Pop Culture", "Clifton's crazy connection to 'Casablanca, "Casablanca As Time Goes By Piano Up For Sale", "Casablanca: Michael Curtiz's 1942 film is a classic love story – with excellent hats", "From quintessential "good girl" to Hollywood heavyweight", "5 Things You Might Not Know About 'Casablanca' On Its 70th Anniversary", "Leonid Kinskey, 95, Bartender in 'Casablanca, "Last surviving Casablanca actress Madeleine Lebeau dies", "Special Contest / Find Jack Benny in "Casablanca, "The Bar at Cinema Vox in Tangier – Casablanca Film", "Prepared Statement of Julius Epstein, Screenwriter and Member, Writers Guild of America, West", United States House Committee on the Judiciary, "Censored Films and Television at University of Virginia online", "Who Played It Again, Sam? Aljean Harmetz has responded, "nearly every Warner Bros. picture was an exception to the auteur theory". A hundred clichés move us. [163][164], On radio there were several adaptations of the film. In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. Laszlo orders the house band to play La Marseillaise. And this is the reason it works, in spite of aesthetic theories and theories of film making. It took 12 police officers to rescue the two, and a red-faced, startled, yet smiling Bogart heard a chorus of cries of 'good luck' and 'here's looking at you, kid' as he was rushed into the theater. [29] Even though many were Jewish or refugees from the Nazis (or both), they were frequently cast as Nazis in various war films, because of their accents. Company Credits I did it because I wanted to. [147], Koch also considered the film a political allegory. Ugarte dies in custody without revealing that he entrusted the letters to Rick. See Appendix 1, "Round up the usual suspects", for example, has been incorporated in the titles of, "As Time Goes By" enjoyed a resurgence after the release of, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Best Music (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture), AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), "Howard Koch, Julius Epstein, Frank Miller Interview", "The demise of dating: Two writers square off on their favourite fictional dating men", "How Hollywood (Fictionally) Won World War Two", "Guess the movie quote: How well do you know classic romantic films? Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. When Renault tries to arrest Laszlo as arranged, Rick forces him at gunpoint to assist in their escape. [105] On April 21, 1957, the Brattle Theater of Cambridge, Massachusetts, showed the film as part of a season of old movies. Play it! Originally, the opposing piece for this iconic sequence was to be the "Horst Wessel Lied", a Nazi anthem, but this was still under international copyright in non-Allied countries. [128] Robert Zemeckis, director of Allied (2016), which is also set in 1942 Casablanca, studied the film to capture the city's elegance. [154] The Blu-ray was initially only released as an expensive gift set with a booklet, a luggage tag and other assorted gift-type items. The Office of War Information prevented screening of the film to troops in North Africa, believing it would cause resentment among Vichy supporters in the region. As the audience gasped, I tried to get out of the row of seats and into the aisle, but the entire Warner family sat blocking me. [37] The project was renamed Casablanca, apparently in imitation of the 1938 hit Algiers. Stories of a Casablanca remake or sequel nonetheless persist. Official Sites While preparing to flee with Rick from the imminent fall of the city during the Battle of France, she learned Laszlo was alive and in hiding. [87][23], Very few films in the early 1940s had portions of the soundtrack released on 78 rpm records, and Casablanca was no exception. When all the archetypes burst in shamelessly, we reach Homeric depths. Almost forty years later, I still haven't recovered from the shock. [40], According to Harmetz, the usual route out of Germany, at least for people in the film industry, was not via Morocco and Lisbon but via Vienna, Prague, Paris and England. The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. All direct references to sex were deleted; Renault's selling of visas for sex, and Rick and Ilsa's previous sexual relationship were implied elliptically rather than referenced explicitly. It is many films, an anthology. [88], The piano featured in the Paris flashback sequences was sold in New York City on December 14, 2012, at Sotheby's for more than $600,000 to an anonymous bidder. Ugarte says the letters had been signed by (depending on the listener) either Vichy General Weygand or Free French General de Gaulle. Der Konzern Warner Brothers hat zunächst versucht, den Titel des Films zu verhindern; daraus ergab sich ein interessanter Briefwechsel zwischen Groucho und Warner Bros. [1] Studio records make clear that Wallis was committed to Bogart from the start.[177]. Besetzung und Stab von Casablanca, Regisseur: Michael Curtiz. Casablanca was shot on 1.37:1 and here it is on 1.77:1. As the police arrive, Renault pauses, then orders them to "round up the usual suspects". He is forcing the girl to live up to the idealism of her nature, forcing her to carry on with the work that in these days is far more important than the love of two little people. [19] Bars of shadow across the characters and in the background variously imply imprisonment, the crucifix, the symbol of the Free French Forces and emotional turmoil. "[100] "Film is splendid anti-Axis propaganda, particularly inasmuch as the propaganda is strictly a by-product of the principal action and contributes to it instead of getting in the way. (uncredited), Moor Buying Diamonds [74] Also, in the original script, when Sam plays "As Time Goes By", Rick remarks, "What the —— are you playing?" [179], In the same vein, though Laszlo asserts that the Nazis cannot arrest him, saying, "This is still unoccupied France; any violation of neutrality would reflect on Captain Renault," Ebert points out, "It makes no sense that he could walk around freely. (uncredited), Second Contact Man at Rick's [153], A Blu-ray release with new special features came out on December 2, 2008; it is also available on DVD. [58], The possibility was discussed of Laszlo being killed in Casablanca, allowing Rick and Ilsa to leave together, but as Casey Robinson wrote to Wallis before filming began, the ending of the film "set up for a swell twist when Rick sends her away on the plane with Laszlo. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. Casablanca (1942) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. [165], On television, there have been two short-lived series based upon Casablanca, both sharing the title. [80], The cinematographer was Arthur Edeson, a veteran who had previously shot The Maltese Falcon and Frankenstein. Singer [146] It was this theme which resonated with a wartime audience that was reassured by the idea that painful sacrifice and going off to war could be romantic gestures done for the greater good. Petty crook Ugarte boasts to Rick of "letters of transit" obtained by murdering two German couriers. Casablanca is a 1942 American wartime romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. [41] Unusually, the film was shot in sequence, mainly because only the first half of the script was ready when filming began.[42]. [63][64] Koch highlighted the political and melodramatic elements,[65][66] and Curtiz seems to have favored the romantic parts, insisting on retaining the Paris flashbacks. He applauded the combination of "sentiment, humor and pathos with taut melodrama and bristling intrigue". They need the letters to escape to America to continue his work. [50][51] In The Guardian, Paul Fairclough writes that Cinema Vox in Tangier "was Africa's biggest when it opened in 1935, with 2,000 seats and a retractable roof. [8][93] It went into general release on January 23, 1943, to take advantage of the Casablanca Conference, a high-level meeting in the city between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [79], The second unit montages, such as the opening sequence of the refugee trail and the invasion of France, were directed by Don Siegel. [127] The 2016 musical film La La Land contains multiple allusions to Casablanca in the imagery, dialogue, and plot. There's No Place Like Hollywood", https://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/censor/show.php?fid=3554, "The mystery of the 'Casablanca' dialogue cut by the film censor", "What's 'Casablanca' Without Nazis? Movies. (uncredited), Haggling Arab Monkey Seller By 1977, Casablanca was the most frequently broadcast film on American television. I said to her, 'I don't know ... play them both evenly.' Renault begins as a collaborator with the Nazis who extorts sexual favors from refugees and has Ugarte killed. Particular attention was paid to photographing Bergman. [45] Fog was used to mask the model's unconvincing appearance. Because of its November 1942 release, the New York Film Critics decided to include the film in its 1942 award season for best picture. Rick's bitterness dissolves. Casablanca lost to In Which We Serve. [97], Casablanca received "consistently good reviews". (uncredited), Italian Officer Tonelli It features in the final scene, in which it gives way to "La Marseillaise" after Strasser is shot. [57], In the play, the Ilsa character is an American named Lois Meredith; she does not meet Laszlo until after her relationship with Rick in Paris has ended. Even Ilsa, the least active of the main characters, is "caught in the emotional struggle" over which man she really loves. [176] George Raft claimed that he had turned down the lead role. [109], On the film's 50th anniversary, the Los Angeles Times called Casablanca's great strength "the purity of its Golden Age Hollywoodness [and] the enduring craftsmanship of its resonantly hokey dialogue". (uncredited), Native Introducing Ferrari Crowther noted its "devious convolutions of the plot", and praised the screenplay quality as "of the best" and the cast's performances as "all of the first order". [172] The film was adapted into a musical by the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female Japanese musical theater company, and ran from November 2009 through February 2010. "[52][53] The scene of the singing of "La Marseillaise" in the bar is attributed by the film scholar Julian Jackson as an adaptation of a similar scene from Jean Renoir's film La Grande Illusion five years prior. When Laszlo makes inquiries, Ferrari, a major underworld figure and Rick's friendly business rival, divulges his suspicion that Rick has the letters. [7] Casablanca was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. This originated in a press release issued by the studio early on in the film's development, but by that time the studio already knew that he was going into the Army, and he was never seriously considered. [134][135] In 2005, it was named one of the 100 greatest films of the last 80 years by Time magazine (the selected films were not ranked). It seems to have filled a need, a need that was there before the film, a need that the film filled". Casey Robinson said Curtiz "knew nothing whatever about story ... he saw it in pictures, and you supplied the stories. [178], However, while rewrites did occur during filming, Aljean Harmetz's examination of the scripts has shown that many of the key scenes were shot after Bergman knew how the film would end; any confusion was, according to critic Roger Ebert, "emotional", not "factual". [125] Film critic Roger Ebert pointed out the plot of the film Barb Wire (1996) was identical to that of Casablanca. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. Instead, he became a Norwegian atomic physicist who was being pursued by Interpol after he "broke out of jail." [123] Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972) appropriated Bogart's Casablanca persona as the fantasy mentor for Allen's character. [28] Harmetz argues that they "brought to a dozen small roles in Casablanca an understanding and a desperation that could never have come from Central Casting". François Truffaut refused an invitation to remake the film in 1974, citing its cult status among American students as his reason. The movie is uploaded in a completely wrong aspect ratio. [8] It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. "[132], When the award for Best Picture was announced, producer Hal B. Wallis got up to accept, but studio head Jack L. Warner rushed up to the stage "with a broad, flashing smile and a look of great self-satisfaction," Wallis later recalled. [117], In the November/December 1982 issue of Film Comment, Chuck Ross wrote that he retyped the screenplay to Casablanca, changing the title back to Everybody Comes to Rick's and the name of the piano player to Dooley Wilson, and submitted it to 217 agencies. [162] In 2012, both The Daily Telegraph and Entertainment Weekly reported on efforts by Cass Warner, granddaughter of Harry Warner and friend of the late Howard Koch, to produce a sequel featuring the search by Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund's illegitimate son for the whereabouts of his biological father. [151], An HD DVD was released on November 14, 2006, containing the same special features as the 2003 DVD. [169] David Thomson provided an unofficial sequel in his 1985 novel Suspects. [60] The problem was solved when the Epstein brothers were driving down Sunset Boulevard and stopped for the light at Beverly Glen. [77], Critic Leonard Maltin considers Casablanca "the best Hollywood movie of all time. The play (set entirely in the cafe) ends with Rick sending Lois and Laszlo to the airport. For now, in doing so, he is not just solving a love triangle. He agrees to help, letting her believe she will stay with him when Laszlo leaves. [72][73] Extensive changes were made, with several lines of dialogue removed or altered. As the narrator finishes th… [98] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, "The Warners ... have a picture which makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap." [118][119][120], Many subsequent films have drawn on elements of Casablanca. (uncredited), Headwaiter at Rick's Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Two clichés make us laugh. Koch later acknowledged: When we began, we didn't have a finished script ... Ingrid Bergman came to me and said, 'Which man should I love more...?' Rick storms over, furious that Sam disobeyed his order never to perform that song and is stunned to see Ilsa. It was passed with cuts on June 15, 1945, shortly after the EPO was lifted. Ebert opined that Citizen Kane is generally considered to be a "greater" film, but Casablanca "is more loved. But when corn works, there's nothing better. This line was altered to: "Sam, I told you never to play..." to conform to Breen's objection to an implied swear word.[75]. [16] The cast is notably international: only three of the credited actors were born in the United States (Bogart, Dooley Wilson, and Joy Page). Almost from the moment Casablanca became a hit, talk began of producing a sequel. Strasser demands Renault close the club, which he does on the pretext of suddenly discovering there is gambling on the premises. [67], In a telegram to film editor Owen Marks on August 7, 1942, Wallis suggested two possible final lines of dialogue for Rick: "Louis, I might have known you'd mix your patriotism with a little larceny" or "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (uncredited), Pickpocketed Prosperous Man [19], The difference between Bergman's and Bogart's height caused some problems. The cuts were made to dialogue between Rick and Ilsa referring to their love affair. [148], Harvey Greenberg presents a Freudian reading in his The Movies on Your Mind, in which the transgressions which prevent Rick from returning to the United States constitute an Oedipus complex, which is resolved only when Rick begins to identify with the father figure of Laszlo and the cause which he represents. Spotting Rick's friend and house pianist, Sam, Ilsa asks him to play "As Time Goes By". Laszlo starts singing, alone at first, then patriotic fervor grips the crowd and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans. (uncredited), Arab Guest with Fez [38] Although an initial filming date was selected for April 10, 1942, delays led to production starting on May 25. Bob Strauss wrote in the newspaper that the film achieved a "near-perfect entertainment balance" of comedy, romance, and suspense. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, he had run guns to Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and fought on the Republican (loyalist) side in the Spanish Civil War. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. "[19] In addition, no uniformed German troops were stationed in Casablanca during World War II, and neither American nor French troops occupied Berlin in 1918. [99], The trade paper Variety commended the film's "combination of fine performances, engrossing story and neat direction" and the "variety of moods, action, suspense, comedy and drama that makes Casablanca an A-1 entry at the b.o. Before he can meet his contact, Ugarte is arrested by the local police under the command of Captain Louis Renault, the unabashedly corrupt prefect of police. "[159], Several unfounded rumors and misconceptions have grown up around the film, one being that Ronald Reagan was originally chosen to play Rick. Much of the emotional impact of the film, for the audience in 1942, has been attributed to the large proportion of European exiles and refugees who were extras or played minor roles (in addition to leading actors Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre): such as Louis V. Arco, Trude Berliner, Ilka Grünig, Ludwig Stössel, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, and Wolfgang Zilzer. It includes a brand-new 4K restoration and new bonus material.[155][156]. [126] In Casablanca, a novella by Argentine writer Edgar Brau, the protagonist somehow wanders into Rick's Café Américain and listens to a strange tale related by Sam. [76] Other critics give more credit to Curtiz. To make Rick's motivation more believable, Wallis, Curtiz, and the screenwriters decided to set the film before the attack on Pearl Harbor. "I couldn't believe it was happening. Menu. (uncredited), Man with Expired Papers "[59] It was certainly impossible for Ilsa to leave Laszlo for Rick, as the Motion Picture Production Code forbade showing a woman leaving her husband for another man. "[61] By the time they had driven past Fairfax and the Cahuenga Pass and through the Warner Brothers studio's portals at Burbank, in the words of Julius Epstein, "the idea for the farewell scene between a tearful Bergman and a suddenly noble Bogart" had been formed and all the problems of the ending had been solved. (uncredited), French Police Officer It proved too difficult to get Claude Rains for the shoot, and the scene was finally abandoned after David O. Selznick judged "it would be a terrible mistake to change the ending. For other uses, see. Casablanca (1955 TV series) aired on ABC as part of the wheel series Warner Bros. Presents in hour-long episodes from 1955 to 1956, is a Cold War espionage program set contemporaneously with its production, and starred Charles McGraw as Rick and Marcel Dalio, who played Emil the croupier in the movie, as the police chief.

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