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Casablanca
A man who owns a nightclub during WWII is needed to help his old flame's husband leave the country.
27 December 1879, Sandwich, Kent, England, UK
April 15, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA
June 16, 1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
26 June 1904, Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary [now Ruzomberok, Slovakia]
12 February 1883, Léka, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Lockenhaus, Burgenland, Austria]
March 21, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA
February 17, 2009
Nothing short of an invasion could add much to Casablanca.
February 22, 2015
Curtiz's film is a classic for a reason -- it's crafted with the precision, detail and beauty of a Fabergé egg; the dialogue is hauntingly memorable and, in Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, it has one of the most magnetic screen pairings in history.
February 26, 2014
The film's tensions, sexual and dramatic, derive from the ambiguity of characters' motives. We can never be too sure about Rick and Renault until the final fadeout.
February 22, 2015
Frankly, it's earned its reputation.
February 22, 2015
Knowing the story doesn't impair one's wonder at the undiminished magic of Casablanca.
February 19, 2013
Casablanca is the most sociable, the most companionable film ever made. Life as an endless party.
October 03, 2015
Certainly a more accomplished cast of players cannot be imagined, and their direction by Michael Curtiz is inspired.
December 20, 2014
There are some of the very finest character actors that Warner Brothers could muster and a rich, detailed screenplay studded with an indecent number of sparklingly quotable lines. It is a movie to play again, and again.
February 17, 2015
An entertaining adventure story played against the colorful background of the cosmopolitan city that has become an important stop on the timetable of the European refugee.
February 26, 2014
The reason Casablanca endures is that it's a timeless love story wrapped inside a gripping wartime thriller, written with such wit and meaning that it's still quoted (and misquoted) decades later.
February 26, 2014
Nobody lights a torch like Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa or carries one like Humphrey Bogart's Rick.
December 28, 2016
While the future was uncertain, the resolute characters of this exquisite wartime drama found peace through love and resistance.
