They had a date with fate in Casablanca!
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, meticulous and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
109 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Ironists.
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“Is Humphrey Bogart the best thing in Casablanca?”
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“Should they have ended up together?”
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“Is Casablanca too earnest?”
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Reviews
- hollisThe Empath★★★★★
Every line is a quotation now and it still plays like a conversation. Claude Rains steals a film that Bogart was already stealing. They do not write them like this; they never did, this was the one time.
Cast
- Humphrey BogartRick Blaine
- Ingrid BergmanIlsa Lund
- Paul HenreidVictor Laszlo
- Claude RainsCaptain Louis Renault
- Conrad VeidtMajor Heinrich Strasser
- Sydney GreenstreetSignor Ferrari
- Peter LorreUgarte
- S.Z. SakallCarl
- Madeleine LebeauYvonne
- Dooley WilsonSam
Crew
- Michael CurtizDirector
- Philip G. EpsteinScreenplay
- Julius J. EpsteinScreenplay
- Howard E. KochScreenplay
- Arthur EdesonDirector of Photography
- Max SteinerOriginal Music Composer
- Owen MarksEditor
- Hal B. WallisProducer
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Pairings
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