@3.16..... "...I'm making out the report now . I haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape ." Just one of many brilliant lines !
"If I didn't give them to you in the concentration camp, where you had more persuasive methods at your disposal, I certainly won't give them to you now."
Especially as they didn't - American and its allies were still fighting on French and Belgian soil at the close of WW1, well over 500 miles from Berlin. Germany was territorially untouched by the war, if devastated economically and politically - it was an Armistice not a surrender. Always wondered how they got that detail so wrong as Hollywood never makes up facts to fit a story, ever ;)
@@paulhorton5612 Renault's reply was worth hearing, no matter how incorrect he was. American audiences wouldn't have known or cared one way or the other. Conrad Veidt MUST have noticed the error, but he was only being paid to say-and-do as he was told by the studio.
Love the composition of shots, through the wooden railing. Curtiz does this several times in this film. Spielberg is a big fan of that and you can see it in Raiders and Jaws quite effectively, as well as his TV work such as Columbo: Murder by the Book.
It's wonderful to think that Ingrid Bergman couldn't speak any English when she came to America only a few years before this film was made, the director Michael Curtiz, a Hungarian, never acquired a great command of English his entire life, yet directed this masterpiece, The Sea Hawk, Adventures of Robin Hood and so many others. The actor who plays the Nazi Major Strasser, Conradt Veidt, whose wife was Jewish, was himself fleeing Nazi Germany, as was Peter Lorre, S. Z. Sakall (Carl the waiter), a Hungarian who fled after Hitler came to power, and the cast and crew are filled to the brim with people from all over Europe fleeing the Nazis in real life. This film mirrors the real life events going on at the time. One could argue that Hollywood owes a great debt, in a twisted sense, to Hitler. Because if not for his rise to power, so many filmmakers, directors, music composers, writers, actors and other artists would never have left Europe and never created the beloved Casablanca and so many other classics, impossible without them and their varied backgrounds. Even the worst situations have a silver lining.
For the powerful people/corporations who'd arranged/funded the Nazi takeover in Germany, the war also had a silver lining: once it became clear after Stalingrad that Hitler was finished, they started planning to establish the trading-partnership that became the E.E C. Germany would get to dominate Europe through 'softly,softly' economic and political relationships.
You gotta love Renault, he's such a spineless but opportunistic flack! I love his bet with Rick for 20,000 francs: "Make it 10,000, I'm only a poor corrupt official".
@@2msvalkyrie529 This was one of Rains' best parts. Paul Henried had a good role as Victor Laszlo, since in real life, as a Jew, he had left mainland Europe to get acting work, first to England and next to the U.S.. After the war ended, Hollywood's priorities changed, so that there was less need for 'foreigners' like Henried, whose career began its slide into bit-parts. Errol Flynn was also soon dropped by Warners, since romantic 'pirate-pictures' were passé after the realities of the just-ended war.
@@JE-wf1xp The Gestapo could've taken or even assassinated Lazlo any time they wanted and Louis wouldn't have said a word. The Vichy government was in charge on paper only. Petain was a Nazi puppet.
I've never understood, if Ugarte could be so casually murdered, why did they have to use such kit gloves in dealing with Laslo? It strikes me as being as strange as the letters of transit having been signed by De Gaul, who had a price on his head at the time. It should have been Petain. Oh well, still the greatest movie ever made.
@@vintageadventure-l6m Yeah, that's an interesting idea. That certainly makes some sense, but Ugarte hardly got due process. What's one more murder among friends?
@@odysseusrex5908 Also, Ugarte is not a well known figure whereas Laslo is world famous. It could also be that Louie, who doesn't like the Germans even if he works for Vichy, refuses to arrest him without some type of cause. But I see your point too. Vichy was only a puppet government after all so it does seem plausible that the Germans could've just had him dragged in. But, in the immortal words of John Ford, "Then we wouldn't have a movie.":)
I think they said the visas were signed by Weygand, a collaborationist general who had responsibility over North Africa, not de Gualle. Though I could be mistaken.
I see people are saying we were no where near Berlin in 1918 ! Well maybe this line in this movie was a hint that perhaps we were ! As you know we have a way of being somewhere and nobody knows we are there !
The writers must have skipped World War 1 history class. No one blundered into Berlin in 1918. There was an Armactice/Cease-fire on the front line in France. Enter the Nazis, saying we never got our ass kicked at all!.Oh yes you did!.♥️😎
Just one great line after another. The writing in this movie is unbelievable!
The American Film Institute created the 100 best Film lines of all time.....This movie had 6 of them
We mustn't underestimate Amarican blundering ......!
@@chrisfallon9678 Don't forget the punchline, when Captain Renault says, 'I was with them when they 'blundered' into Berlin in 1918'.
And so many of them are funny and delivered perfectly! "I'm shocked to find gambling in here... here's your winnings captain" really great writing
Paul Henreid, never got the credit due him.
Such a great actor. Totally into his role. Not to mention how gorgeous he is!!
That was the Best movie ever. I watch again if I have the chance.
@3.16..... "...I'm making out the report now . I haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape ."
Just one of many brilliant lines !
Very common Nazi cause of prisoner death: "shot while trying to escape"
One of the most amazing things about this film was that it was filmed in 1941. So all of these events were actually happening at the time
Early in the movie, Rick OK’s a cheque dated December 2 1941.
"If I didn't give them to you in the concentration camp, where you had more persuasive methods at your disposal, I certainly won't give them to you now."
But his Twitter account could be permanently deleted!
@@Texasjim2007 ...or his Social Credit.
Every competent investigator knows that people hold up to personal torture a lot more than they do to threats to family or loved ones.
"another Visa problem has come up..."
"Show her in...." [straightens tie]
Mark my words, that line will be an issue with some who will demand the film be censored/altered or even banned.
@@robbiereilly haha snowflakes amirite?
Strasser can be seen smiling cynically at this point - the two are very much on the same page in this scene.
@@robbiereilly eye roll. another incel/troll baiter.
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Reading your comment I thought u were going to say the stuff dreams are made off. Another Boggie classic!!
After countless viewings in my 70 years of life; these snipets will def help me achieve my goal to memorize most of the dialogue
"I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918." this is so f*cking funny
I'm scrolling the comments to see if anybody noticed. I die laughing everytime I hear it!!!! Lol lol
Especially as they didn't - American and its allies were still fighting on French and Belgian soil at the close of WW1, well over 500 miles from Berlin. Germany was territorially untouched by the war, if devastated economically and politically - it was an Armistice not a surrender. Always wondered how they got that detail so wrong as Hollywood never makes up facts to fit a story, ever ;)
@@paulhorton5612 Renault's reply was worth hearing, no matter how incorrect he was. American audiences wouldn't have known or cared one way or the other. Conrad Veidt MUST have noticed the error, but he was only being paid to say-and-do as he was told by the studio.
Goes to show that even in 1942, when the movie was made, people were already confused about what had happened barely 20 years ago
@@NYCZ31 the victors get to write the history
Love the composition of shots, through the wooden railing. Curtiz does this several times in this film. Spielberg is a big fan of that and you can see it in Raiders and Jaws quite effectively, as well as his TV work such as Columbo: Murder by the Book.
It’s a great shot, giving you the feeling of peering into a conversation, which is mirrored by how the protagonists don’t know about it.
Omnipresence pov
Amazing that Conrad Veidt was the inspiration for the original Joker from the Batman series.
And that he was himself a refugee from Nazi Germany. Ironic.
Victor was the man!
It's wonderful to think that Ingrid Bergman couldn't speak any English when she came to America only a few years before this film was made, the director Michael Curtiz, a Hungarian, never acquired a great command of English his entire life, yet directed this masterpiece, The Sea Hawk, Adventures of Robin Hood and so many others. The actor who plays the Nazi Major Strasser, Conradt Veidt, whose wife was Jewish, was himself fleeing Nazi Germany, as was Peter Lorre, S. Z. Sakall (Carl the waiter), a Hungarian who fled after Hitler came to power, and the cast and crew are filled to the brim with people from all over Europe fleeing the Nazis in real life. This film mirrors the real life events going on at the time.
One could argue that Hollywood owes a great debt, in a twisted sense, to Hitler. Because if not for his rise to power, so many filmmakers, directors, music composers, writers, actors and other artists would never have left Europe and never created the beloved Casablanca and so many other classics, impossible without them and their varied backgrounds.
Even the worst situations have a silver lining.
For the powerful people/corporations who'd arranged/funded the Nazi takeover in Germany, the war also had a silver lining: once it became clear after Stalingrad that Hitler was finished, they started planning to establish the trading-partnership that became the E.E C. Germany would get to dominate Europe through 'softly,softly' economic and political relationships.
The silent era taught a lot of people how to make great films without relying on verbal language. Dialogue could always be filled in later.
You gotta love Renault, he's such a spineless but opportunistic flack! I love his bet with Rick for 20,000 francs: "Make it 10,000, I'm only a poor corrupt official".
Yes. He gets some of the best lines .And, more importantly , he knows how to deliver them.!
@@2msvalkyrie529 This was one of Rains' best parts.
Paul Henried had a good role as Victor Laszlo, since in real life, as a Jew, he had left mainland Europe to get acting work, first to England and next to the U.S..
After the war ended, Hollywood's priorities changed, so that there was less need for 'foreigners' like Henried, whose career began its slide into bit-parts. Errol Flynn was also soon dropped by Warners, since romantic 'pirate-pictures' were passé after the realities of the just-ended war.
I'm closing you down for illegal gambling, here are your winnings sir A TRUE DEMOCRAT
My fav character..maybe of all time..Renault....he's so good
It doesn't take much to figure out that he was trading visas for sex. Maybe that is why he found his job so enjoyable.
00:44 Love her Hat ! Just no other hat compares to this one... She wears it well...
just the right amount of menace
"Even Nazis cannot kill that fast". This movie was made before the allies understood what was really going on in the concentration camps.
German bureaucrats and engineers...'challenge accepted.'
So sad .my heart breaks .
Great movie, one of my favourites, but it's 'Hollywood history' through and through
Goebbels admired it as a prime piece of what to him was enemy propaganda.
“Even Nazis can’t kill that fast”
Himmler ~ “Hold my beer”.
'Send her in !'
"...SHOW her in!"
The eagle-and-swastika badge on Strasser's uniform has the look of the version used by the Luftwaffe.
It is a Luftwaffe badge ! Not sure why.? A mistake perhaps ..
Best movie evwr
Viva let underground fight on it's not over
Movie: Casablanca
Nobody's ever explained how the Gestapo allowed Lazlo to walk freely around Casablanca when he was the most wanted man in Europe?
French Vichy in charge, not Nazis. In this scene Victor says, "This is still UNOCCUPIED France."
@@JE-wf1xp The Gestapo could've taken or even assassinated Lazlo any time they wanted and Louis wouldn't have said a word. The Vichy government was in charge on paper only. Petain was a Nazi puppet.
American armies didn’t enter Berlin in 1918. German armies surrendered while still in France.
Someone tracked black spots in the eyes..
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I've never understood, if Ugarte could be so casually murdered, why did they have to use such kit gloves in dealing with Laslo? It strikes me as being as strange as the letters of transit having been signed by De Gaul, who had a price on his head at the time. It should have been Petain. Oh well, still the greatest movie ever made.
Ugarte had committed a crime on French soil. Laslo hadn’t.
@@vintageadventure-l6m Yeah, that's an interesting idea. That certainly makes some sense, but Ugarte hardly got due process. What's one more murder among friends?
@@odysseusrex5908 Also, Ugarte is not a well known figure whereas Laslo is world famous. It could also be that Louie, who doesn't like the Germans even if he works for Vichy, refuses to arrest him without some type of cause. But I see your point too. Vichy was only a puppet government after all so it does seem plausible that the Germans could've just had him dragged in. But, in the immortal words of John Ford, "Then we wouldn't have a movie.":)
@@vintageadventure-l6m LOL!
I think they said the visas were signed by Weygand, a collaborationist general who had responsibility over North Africa, not de Gualle. Though I could be mistaken.
I see people are saying we were no where near Berlin in 1918 ! Well maybe this line in this movie was a hint that perhaps we were ! As you know we have a way of being somewhere and nobody knows we are there !
Reality evades warecords.
I know
greatest movie ever but the Americans were nowhere near berlin in 1918
The writers must have skipped World War 1 history class. No one blundered into Berlin in 1918. There was an Armactice/Cease-fire on the front line in France. Enter the Nazis, saying we never got our ass kicked at all!.Oh yes you did!.♥️😎
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