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- Take a look at the creation of Casablanca in this short documentary which features commentary from directors Steven Spielberg, William Friedkin, and more!
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About Casablanca:
Academy Award winners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history--Casablanca. Rick Blaine (Bogart) owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Bergman) walks through the front door of Rick's club. Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
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In my humble opinion, Casablanca is not only the greatest movie ever made, but the greatest movie that will ever be made.
Films like casablanca, gone with the wind, singin in the rain are better than 100% films today and those films will be timeless forever
With 85 years of experience this is my favorite movie.
Those shutters and the effects they mentioned were the idea of my father, John Beckman, who worked uncredited on much of the art direction. (It was also his idea to use the Burbank airport.) His contributions to Casablanca and other earlier films were finally acknowledged when he was inducted into the Art Director's Hall of Fame.
What a wonderful story and legacy, thank you for sharing.
Genius 👏🏻👏🏻
How cool, Jane🕊️💜Your dad is immortalized in this great film.
Super cool Jane!
That's really amazing! Glad to hear he did get some of the recognition he deserved
I'd rather watch Casablanca for the sixtieth time than any of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood in 2023.
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Same goes for music.
Agreed, I have probably seen it 25 times.
Especially Disney.
I would probably see today's films once, and KNOW what exactly is out there, instead of word of mouth.
I didn’t realize the timing of Casa Blanca. Amazing. No wonder people became so committed to this film over the years.
Conrad Veidt, the actor who played Major Strasser, died of a heart attack just a few months after the film. What a charismatic and beautiful man. How tragic!
Nobody ever mentions the great man in "Casablanca".
I m French , from the first time I watched Casablanca I was taken away, since then everytime i watch the film my emotion is intact my father served in the French navy La Royale and was made prisoner by the Germans in Dunkirk in 1940 , every time my eyes get misty Dad how often i think of you All my love JMarc
It's so sad how France is being lost to Islam and North Africans today. Too many migrants and not enough French people (or Western Europeans in general) having children while Muslims have large families of 6 or more children.
VIVA LA France and its veterans!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
@@dannysunay4386 thank you so much
No one seems to understand that in 1941 the Allies we’re losing the war. I was in the cinema watching Casablanca, everything German was disliked! I loved the film along with everyone else. It showed hope for our future against evil. We all cheered when the story showed goodness winning.
It was a terrible time for us! Casablanca helped. We left the cinema feeling we had a future. Thanks
I have a recording of US radio broadcasts on Dec. 7th. Of course I know that we won, but listening to these broadcasts of regularly scheduled programing being broken into for the initials announcement of the attack and then periodically during the day is still chilling. Knowing we were attacked and not knowing whether we would survive as a nation is just shattering.
@@auapplemac2441 I used to listen to Fibber McGee and Molly old time radio shows. Several of the episodes were recorded during and after Pearl Harbor. They’re priceless snapshots of those desperate times.
It's heartbreaking to think what light we might've been in the world is all but extinguished. (2023)
@@mortalclown3812, my friend, it's only over if we surrender. A lot of people wanted to quit after Fredericksburg, a lot wanted to quit after Cold Harbor. But we didn't quit. America is still the last, best hope of Earth. Don't quit on that.
@@mortalclown3812 , why so pessimistic?
The scene when Paul Henried gets every one singing La Marseillaise still bring tears to my eyes
It gets me every time. It did just now.
Brilliant indeed. When things mattered.
Me too Anna.
Every single time. Including just now.
Yes it was a gut wrencher.
How can you ignore the contributions of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet? The scenes with them are fantastic.
And Claude Rains and Conrad Veidt. The superb supporting cast was given short shrift in this otherwise excellent documentary.
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the bottom line is that there are NO bad scenes in that film.
Handling charges, dear boy, handling charges...
Greenstreet was bigger than life. Always a villian. Big man camera angles were classic.
YOU ARE RIGHT !
My understanding is that Ingrid Bergman had never watched this movie until she was invited to a film festival honoring her. After seeing herself acting on screen with Bogart for the first time, she commented "Wow, that is a wonderful film!"
Worked many years ago on the Warner Bros. lot. Spent many lunch breaks just walking around and reading all the plaques at the entrance of the stages listing some of the movies flimed on it. When I got to one and it listed Casablanca, my jaw dropped. And even though the stage was just filled with lumber and other construction materials, I just walked around trying to imagine Bogart and Bergman fliming their scenes.
You are so lucky. Thank you for sharing. It allowed me to imagine.
Thank you for sharing your Casablanca story
Just walking in that stage would be a thrill, indeed.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
I'm told that the piano at our monastery in LA was used in Casablanca and other Warner Bro. movies.
I'd love to take the tour of the backlot! TCM shows in one of their segments a small storefront that's still there---It was used as a cafe and that's where Rick and Ilsa were sitting when they heard the German's were marching into Paris. Think that's the only set that still exists.
Bogart, Bergman were great. But I cannot imagine this film without Claude Rains, he is a perfect character to round out the contradictions in this film. A poor corrupt official as he calls himself but ultimately a patriot.
And also a charismatic actor-he never faked an accent in any of his films, and you never question it lol
" How extravagant you are Rick. Throwing away women like that. One day they may be scarce ".
Claude Rains was also brilliant in Lawrence of Arabia.
Corrupt? I am shocked shocked, I tell you....hahahaha (I agree with your opinion of Claude)
@@MOGGS1942would you agree with me that every phrase in that movie became a legend on its own?
One of the most emotional scenes in movie history was the singing of the La Marseillaise in the nightclub. What is mostly not known is that many of the extras had just come from Europe. And Miss LeBeau, the young woman, had just escaped from France. So, her tears and the pain in her heart during the singing are real.
Only a few years later, after the end of WW2 these same French were murdering Algerians by the hundreds of thousands because Algerians wanted no more to be a French colony and wanted to be independent. And the same in Indochina, they killed a million for the same reason. So much for freedom loving Frenchmen!
Why was Sam mysteriously absent from that scene? This is _the one scene_ where he should have been close to front and center( at least present).
It makes me question the whole WW2 meta-narrative.
@@zacharyzapata8559 If Sam had been working and not off on his lunch break or whatever, his piano wouldn't have been available for the Germans to hijack. What would it have looked like if he had been there and let the Germans use his piano?
And, no one knew what the outcome of WWII would be!
Bogart was the only actor in that scene who was born in America.
Bergman is divine, and there'll never be another Bogart. The entire cast was perfect.
Yes, and also when you watch it, it's striking how deftly it flows despite being fairly complex in narrative terms. You never feel lost or confused by the storylines.
"We'll always have Paris". I know of all the tech reasons for this is such a great film, but I think the best reason for why so many people love this film is the following. I think most people have had a great love that was lost for some reason or another, leaving behind a great unhealed wound. This story about such a great love that in a weird way that was somehow resolved and the wound healed, is what everyone dreams of, and the line "We'll always have Paris" sums it all up. But then, what do I know.
Your comment is spot on and you know of what you speak.
Ditto.
Tres ditto.
What you know, is alot. Stay wise.
I'm with you there - I too have an ' unrequited ' love and without realising it said to the subject of that a few years ago when we met (planned) for a brief hour (after 40 years) as we departed wishing each other well "here's looking at you kid". She smiled and thanked me for making her marriage 'easy'. ??? No I don't understand either!
When people sat in the theatres and watched Casablanca; WWII was not over yet. I think the experience for all of us was quite different for them; not knowing, as we do, that American won the war.
To me Dooley Wilson shouldn’t be forgotten for his role in the film. Just another gem to add to the crown of this marvelous film 🎥
ABSOLUTELY!!
My mum always thought that was Louis Armstrong - indeed both the face and the voice are quite similar. :)
He deserves much more credit than he has received.
The moment when Laszlo conducts La Marseillaise is when you see why Ilsa loves him, too. Both men are worthy of her love.
Her love is motivated by respect. Her love for Rick is motivated by an emotional bonding of two lovers.
i tear up everytime I see that scene even in this documentery. Great movie.
Greatest moment in American Cinema history in my view
Just how far we’ve fallen as a culture.
I went from a private military school environment to the school of arts at NYU, and I discovered Casablanca quite by accident, but as soon as I saw it, I knew that I was not going to see anything else like it in my lifetime…. and it turns out that was a prescient observation.
It is simply the best movie ever made. Period. The cast, the director, the rushed feeling of the dialogue, and the relevancy of the tone and plot . And of course, the fact that for many of the cast and crew it was real life.
I've seen it a dozen times & it's my favorite of all time.
You said it brother!
My all time favorite. When I was a teenager in the '60s, I had a huge poster of Bogie in a scene from the movie on the wall in my bedroom. I was smitten with Bogart, and became a big fan. Even as a kid, I loved old movies. I really appreciated all the explanations of the current directors and producers.That is something I hadn't seen before this.
Absolutely, I agree it is the PERFECT movie. And to think, it was considered a B film at the time.
I’m a photographer, watching this movie in B&W is so impressive. You could cut hundreds of stills out of it and frame the pictures on the walls. They would all be prize winners!
Just perfection from the lighting on the characters.
An impeccable production - there were no bit actors. The acting, direction, cinematography, set design, writing, costumes. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
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- I purchased the movie CD !!! 🥰 in 2012 !!!
- I watch it Over AND Over !!!
- Always New and Fresh !!!
We “Embrace CASABLANCA” 🥂💫🥂
Nobody ever told me this film was great, and that I had to think so. i just saw it one day, and I fell in love. It's a perfect movie in every way. And this is a great doc showing why.
For several years, around the 1980s/90s,, it used to be screened on New Year's Eve on Swedish TV, a much-loved film and an affirmation of hope. :) I've also watched it many times on TCM.
I took an older friend to one of our “play the classics”:movie theaters years ago. She had never seen CASABLANCA.
She lived during WW II, as a teenager.
After Rick walks into the fog with Louie and the lights come up she says,”Well, I didn’t want her to go with Lazlo. She should have been with Rick!”
I started all this “the problems of three little people don’t amount to anything”, “the cause they were fighting for meant more than any one person”…yada yada yada…
“I don’t care!”
She’s been gone for five years now. But I still smile at that memory.
That's how I felt when I saw this as a pre-teen, but I grew up watching "happy endings." Wasn't used to more complicated relationships and situations. It still tugs my heart when they separate.
My father took me to the movie theater to watch this movie when I was 7 years old, I was expecting a war movie, battle scenes and ultimately the American soldiers winning the War. I knew it was a classic but the separation scene did not mean nothing to me as I understood happy endings are difficult even in peaceful times. I forgot almost everything about this movie until many years later when I found my self in a love triangle, I was in Rick's same situation and I had lo let go the love of my life. I acted justly and never regretted my decision; for me this film had the happiest ending ever and Rick becoming a Hero.
And I think people have been debating that ending ever since the film was made. From this documentary, it seems they were debating it even WHILE the film was being made. But I think it's the right ending.
Ingrid was one of handful of women who are luminous.
It cannot be quantified or categorized it’s simply magical.
Luminous. What a great description. She doesn't reflect a light source - she is the light source.
you ROCK her daughter got lotsa that..
as were the handful of characters in this masterpiece.
She demonstrated that sometimes women’s hats don’t look ridiculous.
yeah< 26 years old, gawjiz!
I never get tired of watching this movie.
A World War II movie made during World War II was also one of Casablanca’s great accomplishments.
My departed wife & I love that movie and even watching this made me cry & use a half a box of tissue,,,,thank you for the memories ❤❤❤
I had the great fortune of seeing a screening of Casablanca with a live orchestra playing the score. If you love the movie, it's an amazing experience.
They should bring it back in opera houses with live orchestra in front of a giant screen!
That would be magnificent!
Wow. When and where was that? Was as hard to get a ticket as an exit visa?
I did too--in Kitchener, Ontario. It was terrific!
This is the kind of film that makes me want to erase my memory of it so I could see it for the very first time. Absolute perfection!
Your wish will come true when you get to be a little older.
The whole flick revolves around Claude Raines character and the anticipation of just what he will do in the building confrontation with the Germans..He was superb as usual..
I am 80 years old and can’t believe that I didn’t find this classic film until a year ago. They are film gems available for all of us, seek and you shall find.
I am of German ancestry and my Uncles were in the German Armed Forces in the war but every time they play the French anthem it makes me want to go to war against the Germans.
And it makes me cry.
"We'll always have Paris"
This speaks to everyone about a lost love and the memories that will always be regardless of the time and place.
Hard to remember all the people associated with this film are dead. But they are in their prime here, and their masterpiece film will live on for future generations to enjoy. Truly a work of art.
"Standing there with a comical look on his face..."
Best friggin movie ever man.
I've been watching this film for over 50 years, and it stills moves me. This video is terrific - an in-depth look at the making of the movie. A million thanks to Warner Brothers for making "Casablanca," and a million thanks to Warner Brothers Entertainment for this video!
Ditto and bravo!
What a glorious exploration of an amazing movie. Thank you Warner Bros for making this available on CZcams.
Don't you wish all YT videos had this production quality? From the first pristine shot of the video, I knew that it came from the horse's mouth itself.
Ronald Regan as Rick? No Play it again🙁 Not shot. In. Morocco?? Airport has midgets BG to give perspective? Bogie improvised key Speech 🤔🎉🎉🎉❤
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Agree with you.
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Practice make perfect. This is true for Bogart, who had made dozens of pictures with unfailing dedication.
Possibly my all-time favourite movie and always in my top 10. The cafe scene and the singing of La Marseillaise is so incredibly moving and uplifting.
Ditto
I still tear up every time I see that scene.
Best scene ever.
it was ment to be. the “greatest” generation was completely comfortable leaving europe to itself, no matter who was dying or how, just as they were while global warming was running wild, mostly to enhance their physical comfort and wealth. now the last of ‘‘em are dying off but the industrial, planet ravaging economy they created blunders on.
we will change by adapting to a cooperative economy or by going extinct. if a movie can help us i’m up for it.
Always brings tear to my eyes
I've seen this film dozens of times. It never gets old. I always tear-up at the end. Arguably, the greatest American film.
I’ve watched it many times also (on DVD) and always shed a tear! So many wonderful and unforgettable lines that gave every character that ‘special moment’. One of my favourites is “Liebschen…er…dear…what watch? (Ten watch) Such much!” Classic!
As Time Goes By, written in 1931, made this film memorable to me, and one of my favorite songs.
The glue that holds CASABLANCA together is actually the performance of Claude Rains. He is barely mentioned in this which is a sad commentary on his work.
He was an amazing actor
True.
Hear hear. He had some of the best lines. Wonderful performance. His little swagger, and the tilt of his hat. Masterful.
Love claude Raines probably my favorite actor
BS
Interesting trivia: Dooley Wilson (Sam); was the only member of the cast, who had actually been to Casablanca, in Morocco. He toured there with his own band as a drummer.😊👍🥁
One problem with casting him in this role is that he couldn’t play the piano in reality! But you never would know that.
RIGHT ON! HE WAS VERY FAMOUS. JAZZ WAS VERY POPULAR AND HIS VOICE WAS BEAUTIFUL. ALSO A SIDE NOTE HE DOS NOT LOOK LIKE LOUIE ARMSTRONGE OR SOUND LIKE HIM!
Casablanca really is a near-perfect film; everyone in it is just great. Claude Rains is so funny in this movie. Some of his lines were hilarious! I especially enjoyed William Friedkin's comments. I'm glad this doc mentions how many of the actors and extras were refugees from Europe.
My favourite film of all time. While Bogart, Bergman, and Rains are superb, really the whole ensemble cast - especially Lorre and Greenstreet - are at the top of their game. Beautifully written, directed, shot, designed, and crafted. It is human, and universal, while also being relevent to the time of its production. Casablanca is a deeply moving experience.
And SO RELEVANT To the times we are in Now - Still fighting against Dictators at home and abroad who threaten the very Fibers of Democracy and Our Nation - May we live up to the TRUE and PATRIOTIC Message of CASABLANCA 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🔔💙
There’s a reason people still talk about “ the golden age of Hollywood”.
This kind of film could never been made at another time in World History.
It was nice to see Helmut Dantine play a nice role !
This movie is indeed an unique experience. It has everything: love, adventure, patriotism, war, jokes, twisted situations, spies, suffering, enjoying...you name it! All the cast is perfect. As for the relationship between Bergman and Bogart...it is simply something I didn't see in any other movie.
This is a superb analysis of one of Hollywood's best movies. Five stars.
One of thee greatest films ever!!! Have seen it countless times and never tire of it!! ❤️
This has been my favorite movie for the past 40 years. I can still watch it back to back and still get that tingle.
I can't tally how many times I've seen Casablanca. And it remains one of the few movies I've ever seen that I can watch an unlimited number of times. Sometimes I'm focused on the script, and sometimes on the camera shots, sometimes on the sets, and sometimes on the lighting. And of course always on the actors.
And I still get choked up at those special moments, and laugh at the jokes. It is an adventure film and an art film at the same time. I consider it a perfect film.
Claude Rains was terrific in this film. Not only was he a great actor and it seems everyone who worked with him liked and respected him.
The most perfectly blocked and composed scenes in a movie I've ever seen. The light/dark/depth arrangements of almost every scene is a joy to watch. Astounding.
The greatest movie ever.
I was a professional photographer when I first saw the film. I thought it was a great job by all involved. Then one day I watched it again and saw what great film photographers and editors had done with closeups. If you look into the actors eyes in those shots, you can see the sparkling in their eyes by what are called “catch lights”. I used it for my own profile shots when doing portrait photography for models. Check back in this video for closeups of Bogart and Ingred. The lighting was fantastic and made you feel what the audio did to make the love scenes work!
By the way, if shot in color it would have lost a lot.
So many shots of those 2 actors should be printed in posters and sold as portraits. The photography is fabulous.
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@@lewisc215 sorry you can’t appreciate the art in there.
So, so true. In color this would not have worked anywhere near as well as it does. The lighting is absolutely brilliant.
This movie sparkles in glorious black, white, and grays.
I was shocked, shocked, to find out this movie was colorized. I believe Ted Turner’s company did that because young people won’t watch B&W movies. Reluctantly, I watched the colorized version of this movie. I am surprised and glad the colorized version works. With all the elements documented in this video the colorized version is worth watching. BTW, in the scene after their fight, Ilsa’s blouse has blue stripes.
This video is so helpful breaking down the movie.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
"Round up the usual suspects" is quite possibly the greatest line in movie history. It's funny, it's a callback to a previous line, and it reveals the denouement of the movie all at the same time. Perhaps it only could have been written after the shooting was well underway, so that the writers would have a feel for the movie itself.
"I was misinformed."
"Play it, Sam."
"I'm shocked, shocked!"
My mother went to see this movie so many times.....and she worked in the studio at the time! .....That my father said you might as well name your second son after the main character!
And she did!😊
and the name was….?
love the movie. it’s always new in its telling.
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@@Nancybelongs2Jesus Richard......as in Richard Blaine
I recall one of the most amazing scenes was when Peter Lorre follows Bogey into his private office. You’d think they’d stop at the top of the stairs with camera following behind both and then set the next shot up of the two entering through a door and then finally set up successive shots inside the room. Oh no! Not this director! Curtiz makes this scene one big continuous seamless interaction! Genius!
Great scene, except it wasn't with Lorre but with Rains.
Great documentary, thanks Warners. Please never remake this magical film.
I am so glad I got to watch this extraordinary documentary about this unique Warner Bros. film we all love so much, thank you to all who participated in it. We shall continue to love it more and more as time goes by…
Hollywood is so magical. That is truly the great escape. Wheather the guy gets the girl or not. Action. Sci fi. Film noir. Adventure. True story. Drama. War. All so wonderful. Casablanca. Yes a true classic. 🎉😊😊😊❤❤
This movie just makes my heart and soul soar! I have so much empathy for the historical time period, that it’s as though I was born in the wrong time (1950s). Being a baby boomer, I grew up with this film playing countless times on WGN (Chicago) and watched it every chance I could. There is an old time radio version of the movie from the Screen Guild Players well worth giving a listen. It’s only 30 minutes long so it pares the movie down to its essentials, but manages to get the point across. This OTR version stars Bogart, Bergman, and Henreid. Enjoy!
In the history of cinema, Casablanca is on a level all it's own.
no matter how many times I watch this movie, I weep when victor goes to the band and the entire room starts singing.
Conrad Veidt ,one of the greatest German actors ,fled Germany 1933,the same for Peter Lorre (Hungarian ),Marcel Dalio fled occupied France 1940,S.Z Sakall(well known in Austria) fled Hungary 1940 .Madeleine Lebeau who sings the Marseillaise was Marcel Dalio's wife at the time.
The lighting is an extraordinary work of art.
OK, now I have to watch Casablanca for the 35th time.
Terrific analysis of my all time favorite. Glad to hear I'm not the only one that cries at certain scenes. Ha!
You could build an entire film school around studying that film. All those great talents, in every aspect of film making, came together and each elevated the others' contributions. Bravo!
I was in my teens, (71 now)when I first saw a movie with Humphrey Bogart , his acting has imprinted an indelible memory for me. Ingrid Bergman certainly enhanced the love that Bogart and Bergman showed in Casablanca, I have never forgotten, the movie African Queen.
I am so glad they cast Bogart and Bergman, perfect !
What's odd is that Bogart did not particularly like the ad hoc screenplay coming at the end of the picture. Yet in the end it will always be critically acclaimed.
What a joy this movie is! I grew up in Hollywood California, and it was the golden age of Hollywood when it was really great! “ not what it is today” it has been said that “Casablanca” may be the best movie ever made! I have been watching movies for 75 years now I’ve seen a lot of them! Not all of them but a lot of them! I love this one! I think you will too for all the reasons that they talk about in this documentary! All the people and they are some of the greats light up when they talk about this movie! I can’t recommend it enough!
I will only quote Ben Mankiewicz of TCM: "the best studio movie ever made." What a fine piece of art...I've seen it at least a dozen times and it always teaches me something new...amazing. They were all truly at the top of their game and made an exquisite masterpiece.
It is a glorious example of an old Hollywood studio at work, every scene is beautifully shot, and it's a perfect combination of photography and acting
It's the dueling chansons in Rick's. Gets me every time.
What an excellent documentary! Casablanca has always been my #1, and this helped me understand why.
Geez I'm tearing up just watching this behind the frickin' scenes show. 😂 time for another rewatch I guess.
Everyone involved in this movie were far more than just employees who worked for a studio. These people were masters of their crafts.
I mean there's no doubt we all know that the studios were like movie factories cranking out movie after movie.
When that happens there's two ways things can go.
The first way is you can get a whole bunch of standard run of the mill movies. Or the second way is you end up with people who have done their jobs so much over and over again that they do become masters and under the right circumstances like the ones we saw come together in this film. You end up with a timeless masterpiece. I have literally watched this movie over the decades countless times and yet it's still is just as enjoyable as it was the day it was probably released.
Just a really really great film classic.
Watched it so many times in my lifetime that at this stage I challenge myself to memorize the dialogue and hope to have it playing in the background on my deathbed...Toured Warner lot decades ago and got to see Rick's suit; Sam's piano (since auctioned for 3.5 million) and the infamous "Letters of Transit"(auctioned for 250K)...La Marseillaise scene still makes me tear up to this day.
I see it on the big screen and have to stop myself from saying the dialouge out loud, I've heard it so many times.
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"Letters of Transit" == macguffin
I was a WB tour guide for 10 years and although there was very little of the back lot that resembled the studio from the early 40s, I always showed them the set used as Café Pierre (on French Street) from the flashbacks to Paris. I loved when I had a couple on my tour who happened to be Casablanca fans. I would pose them on the sidewalk in front of Café Pierre and take their picture while instructing the husband to say to his wife, “Now now… Here’s looking at you kid.” Sometimes I would choke up in the process.
I saw an interview of Tom Hanks where he told a story: one day while filming Casablanca the director asked Bogart to shoot one more thing, him standing there and nodding off camera, just to have it if they needed it. That was the clip they finally used for where Bogart nods to the orchestra to play the Marseillaise.
Growing up my Dad loved this film , Boggy as he called him was one of this favourite actors as was Miss Bergman . Original
There are only three movies that I repeatedly watch once a year every year: Casa Blanca, It's A Wonderful Life, and Groundhog Day. That's so I can remind myself what love is.
Possibly the two greatest actors to play the credible and dramatic love affair you can sympathize with
and they are adults, not teenagers.
I've always been fascinated by the song played while Rick and Ilsa are dancing. It's "Perfidia", a then very popular song about a man who's been betrayed by his lover. I think many or even most people in the audience back then must have been familiar with it and its implications. Classic symbolic storytelling.
Great comment. They did not play it while they showed the clip and I had not remembered the scene. Back in the day, I did not listen to '40's music enough but the moment you gave the title, the song immediately played in my head. Unforgettable and amazingly symbolic.
WOW! Thank you for that very interesting trivia, because the music sounds so happy...totally opposite of what you just shared. I love watching that scene because I LOVE BIG cocktail rings. They were very fashionable and popular in the films of Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard, Barbara Stanwyck; and I can spot one a mile away. You can see Ingrid Bergman's cocktail ring only for a quick second while they are dancing, and it's on her left hand. I always fantasize that Rick gave it to her as a gift.👍😊👏
" Perfidia " is a Classic song, and has been recorded many times down the years.
One of my favourite versions is by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with the magnificent Ms. Helen Forrest vocalising. It's an up tempo version. Video available on u tube.
did Glenn miller do a version??
And the lyrics: Note the meaning of the word:
(Spanish for "perfidy", meaning faithlessness, treachery or betrayal)
To you my heart cries out, Perfidia
For I found you, the love of my life, in somebody else's arms
Your eyes are echoing perfidia
Forgetful of our promise of love, you're sharing another's charms...
With a sad lament my dreams have faded like a broken melody
While the gods of love look down and laugh at what romantic fools we mortals be...
And now I know my love was not for you
And so I take it back with a sigh, perfidious one
Goodbye...
It is truly one movie I can re-watch year after year.
About once a year they play Casablanca in a theater near me. To see it on the big screen is wonderful. The audience claps every time a classic line is said and stand and applaud at the end.
Casablanca will always be one of my all-time favorite films alongside High Noon (1952) and On The Waterfront (1954). It's hard to top just how perfect those films are along with the tour de force performances of the actors.
Seriously, when legends like Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, and Marlon Brando along with Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly and Eva Marie Saint are the leads in 3 of your favorite movies, it spoils me for so many other movies. That's what happens when a legend gives a legendary performance in a legendary movie, though.
Thanks for shining a light on this timeless classic, Warner Bros.
Yes, those three classics would be in my top 5 of all time, along with Field of Dreams (with Kevin Kostner) and, probably, The Big Easy (Dennis Quaid).
You named my three favorite films!
Speaking of Brando: "What are you rebelling against?" "What have you got?"
My narrative should resonate
Paul Heindrich was for me the very best and carasmatic in this film and fantastic when he conducted that last Scene
I am always amazed when I notice that Casablanca is playing on the TV. I turn to it and can't stop watching. The perfect movie.
Actors, actresses all were beautiful people, with class, a quality not found very often in this age. People who could convey emotions with a glance ,a gesture , a smile or frown. I miss them all!
The portion here about the lighting/shadow on Ingrid's face is prescient to my reaction to the film, when first watching it decades ago.
So striking were the features of her cheeks & neck line, it jumped out to mine eyes all those years ago & still does.
They knew what they had in her as far as physical beauty & how best to show it to an audience.
In turn, one winds up, almost unnaturally, feeling sympathy & caring toward her character; as you want her to live happily & free of strife.
The "beauty knows no pain" ideal that we all somehow imagine to be true.....
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A TRUE TIMELESS MASTERPIECE.
The cast was perfect.
Having already been a huge fan of "Casablanca," watching and listening about how this movie was Created, Directed, and Produced gives me much more appreciation of this movie. One can truly call "Casablanca," a "Classic Movie."
It's simply the best film ever made in Hollywood. From the opening montage of people fleeing War in Europe, until Rick and Renaud walk off into the fog. This was very much of its own historical moment, but resonates down the years. Mike Curtiz has always been one of my favorite directors - beginning with CAPTAIN BLOOD. Freedom is always worth fighting for.
Ive seen it dozens of times, and have a DVD. It is ESSENTIAL.
In my top 5 movies ever along with Schindler's List, The Exorcist, The Big Lewboski and The Usual Suspects. Casablanca makes you feel like you're there.
I’ve learned to appreciate this movie.