Casablanca

This landmark film was a winner of 3 Oscars; Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. CASABLANCA the Best Picture of 1942. This classic love story is full of intrigue, witty dialogue, and a host of outstanding co-stars including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Bogart received the first of his three Best Actor Academy Award nominations for this film. The story takes place in the time of World War II. The place is Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon. For me the Casablanca film is the best movie of all times.It is like fine wine it gets better as time goes by...

A great airport scene

Catain Renault, Lazlo, Rick and Ilsa arranging the getaway at the airport--but the adventure isn't over yet. Here is one of the most famous lines in the picture: "Major Strasser's been shot. Round up the usual suspects." --Renault

The American Film Institute ranked Casablanca as the 2nd greatest American film of all times behind Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

The Goodbye Scene

The most famous goodbye scene in cinema history: Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong. Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I... Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie? Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist. Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go. Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today... maybe not tomorrow… but soon and for the rest of your life. Ilsa: But what about us? Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you. Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of... Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid. --Rick.

There is a lot of chemistry between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. There are also many famous scenes that makes this picture one of the best! The dialogue is quite memrable. Rick: How long was it we had, honey? Ilsa: I didn't count the days. Rick: Well, I did. Every one of them. Mostly, I remember the last one, the wild finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out. Rick: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. Ilsa: Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time. Rick: I stick my neck out for nobody. Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met... Rick: Was La Belle Aurora. Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris. Rick: Not an easy day to forget? Ilsa: No. Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray… you wore blue Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake. Sam: [lying] I don't know what you mean, Miss Elsa. Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By." Sam: [lying] Oh, I can't remember it, Miss Elsa. I'm a little rusty on it. Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum... [Sam begins playing] Ilsa: Sing it, Sam. Sam: [singing] You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by. / And when two lovers woo, / They still say, "I love you" / On that you can rely / No matter what the future brings-... Rick: [rushing up] Sam, I thought I told you never to play-... [Sees Ilsa. Sam closes the piano and rolls it away.] Oh! There are so many more memorable lines... "As Time goes by..."

Another great scene with some outstanding dialogue... Renault: "I was informed you were the most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca. That was a gross understatement." Renault: "We have a curfew here in Casablanca. It would never do for the chief of police to be found drinking after hours and have to fine himself." Now my real favorite was an exchange between Louie and Rick: Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed.

CASABLANCA 1942 is awesome... the theme music is a melody that you will be humming long after you have seen the movie... Yes who can forget "As Time Goes By..." And Ilsa saying, "Play it once, Sam. For old time's sake."... Then Sam replying, "I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa... Ilsa again repeating her request, "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By."Sam: [lying] Oh, I can't remember it, Miss Elsa. I'm a little rusty on it....Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum... [Sam begins playing] ... Ilsa: Sing it, Sam... Sam: [singing] You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by. / And when two lovers woo, / They still say, "I love you" / On that you can rely / No matter what the future brings-... Rick: [rushing up] Sam, I thought I told you never to play-... [Sees Ilsa. Sam closes the piano and rolls it away.]... What a powerful scene!!!