80 years on screen

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Casablanca celebrates 80 years on screen

Warning: Contains Spoilers Eighty years since its first release, Casablanca continues to regale audiences. It was called the jewel of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and was the result of the combined efforts of virtuoso talents in...

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here's looking at you kid.

 

[DudleySmith]

I liked the movie but never considered it 'Great'. It wasn't nearly as good as Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine, or any number of other movies of that decade.

 

[rightwinger]

Classic movie
Maybe the best ever made

Iconic

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

I watched it once. Didn't really think much of it.
Watched it again a few years later, thinking maybe time would have given something to the movie..........or me.
But no, still nothing.

Is it a good movie? As the oldies go, I guess. Is it the best movie ever? Far from it.

I think people like it because it's the eternal "will they or won't they" kind of thing. It's usually a huge hit in any movie or TV show that plays it out between the two main characters. Fun to watch, but I wouldn't call it anything other than what it is. A good watch on a rainy day.

 

[hjmick]

Classic movie
Maybe the best ever made

Iconic

Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia.

All in the running for best ever made, IMHO.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

great movie
perfect script

 

[DudleySmith]

Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia.

Yes, both of those are excellent. The latter is far more impressive when seen in a big theater screen. The cinematography is excellent.

 

[Pellinore]

The scene where the bar patrons sing "La Marseillaise" to drown out the Germans at Rick's was movie magic at its finest. The movie was shot in 1941 or 42, the extras were mostly actual French refugees, and the tears in their eyes are largely real.

Also, Conrad Veidt, who plays the Nazi commander, is one of my silver-screen heroes. He was a German actor who married a Hungarian Jewish woman and was very vocally anti-Nazi, smuggled his family out, and sent thousands of British kids chocolate and money while they were hunkered down during the Blitz. He would have become a much bigger name if he hadn't dropped dead on a golf course at 50.

 

[rightwinger]

The scene where the bar patrons sing "La Marseillaise" to drown out the Germans at Rick's was movie magic at its finest. The movie was shot in 1941 or 42, the extras were mostly actual French refugees, and the tears in their eyes are largely real.

Also, Conrad Veidt, who plays the Nazi commander, is one of my silver-screen heroes. He was a German actor who married a Hungarian Jewish woman and was very vocally anti-Nazi, smuggled his family out, and sent thousands of British kids chocolate and money while they were hunkered down during the Blitz. He would have become a much bigger name if he hadn't dropped dead on a golf course at 50.

Love that scene

Also the scene where Rick saves the teenaged bride from Inspector Renault