Casablanca
Drama, Romance
Warner Bros.  (1943) 103 mins PG

8.8 (137,140 votes) Top 250: #11
"The best Hollywood movie of all time." -Leonard Maltin

Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henried), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one... especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance.

Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, Casablanca is America's most popular and beloved movie - and rightly so" (The Motion Picture Guide)!...

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Cast and Crew
Ingrid Bergman  ......  Ilsa Lund
Humphrey Bogart  ......  Rick Blaine
Paul Henreid  ......  Victor Laszlo
Peter Lorre  ......  Ugarte
Conrad Veidt  ......  Major Strasser
Sydney Greenstreet  ......  Signor Ferrari
Director  .....  Michael Curtiz
Producer  .....  Hal B. Wallis; Jack L. Warner
Writer  .....  Howard Koch; Philip G. Epstein; Murray Burnett; Joan Alison
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: When Laszlo enters Rick's for the first time, he puts his hat on a chair next to the one he sits in. Later, before Capt. Renault sits on the same chair, Laszlo picks up the hat and puts it on the floor. When Laszlo leaves, he does not pick up his hat. But when he leaves Rick's, he is holding his hat. (more)

Trivia:
The movie's line "We'll always have Paris." was voted as the #43 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100). (more)

Filming Locations:
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But, not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up - Paris to Marseilles...
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Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations (more)