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Features: DVD, Special Edition
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | 2-Disc Set | | Region [unknown] | | Keep Case | | Full Frame | | Audio:
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 6/9/2009 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1942 | | Catalog ID: 1000039897 | | UPC: 00883929026333 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: B&W |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Academy Awards (1943) |  | Winner, Best Picture | | Michael Curtiz, Winner, Best Director | |
Academy Awards (1942) | | Hal B. Wallis, Winner, Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | |
Academy Awards (1943) | | Julius J. Epstein, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Howard Koch, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Memorable Quotes| "Here's looking at you, kid."----Humphrey Bogart (Rick) to Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa) at least three times during the course of the film | | "Only one answer can take care of all our questions."----Ilsa just before kissing Rick | | "But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris." "Not an easy day to forget. I remember every detail----the Germans wore gray, you wore blue."----Interchange between Rick and Ilsa at his cafe after seeing each other for the first time in years | | "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."----Rick about Ilsa |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times
"...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..." 09/15/1996 p.5Entertainment Weekly
"...One of the most perfect Hollywood movies ever made..." 08/08/2003 p.57 Total Film
"Possibly the most famous film ever made, CASABLANCA has everything..." 07/01/2000 p.118 Premiere
"...Here Humphrey Bogart transformed himself into a romantic hero..." 12/01/2003 p.5 Sight and Sound
"Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart provide the chemistry that sets this apart from countless other tales of doomed wartime love affairs." 03/01/2004 p.75 |
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