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Who has not heard of this classic?
I'll admit the first time I saw it I was nit impressed, but then while on a business trip it was the best of a bad lot on a hotel TV, and I loved it
It is so corny and melodramatic how could you not love it?
The big issue about will Rick go with Ilsa, or will Ilsa stay with him came about I beleive because they actors were not told how the story ended.
By the way 'Play it again Sam' was never uttered in this movie. Quotes from this include:
Ugarte: You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
Berger: We read five times that you were killed, in five different places.
Victor Laszlo: As you can see, it was true every single time.
Captain Louis Renault: Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies.
Carl:I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway.
Captain Louis Renault: In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain, on the Loyalist side.
Rick Blaine: I got well paid for it on both occasions.
Captain Louis Renault: The winning side would have paid you much better.
Captain Louis Renault: Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.
Rick Blaine: Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette.
Captain Louis Renault: That is another reason.
Ilsa Lund: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
Sam: [lying] I don't know what you mean, Miss Elsa.
Ilsa Lund: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
Sam: [lying] Oh, I can't remember it, Miss Elsa. I'm a little rusty on it.
Ilsa Lund: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum... [Sam begins playing] Sing it, Sam.
Sam: [singing] You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by. / And when two lovers woo, / They still say, "I love you" / On that you can rely / No matter what the future brings---
Rick Blaine: [rushing up] Sam, I thought I told you never to play---
[Sees Ilsa. Sam closes the piano and rolls it away.]
Rick Blaine: I remember Paris perfectly. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue.
Major Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick Blaine: It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
Rick Blaine: When you get there, ask me!
Captain Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Major Strasser: How about New York?
Rick Blaine: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
Yvonne: Where were you last night?
Rick Blaine: That's so long ago, I don't remember.
Yvonne: Will I see you tonight?
Rick Blaine: I never make plans that far ahead.
Captain Louis Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick Blaine: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Louis Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
Captain Louis Renault: My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Casablanca I am master of my fate! I am--
Police Officer: Major Strasser is here, sir!
Rick Blaine: You were saying?
Captain Louis Renault: Excuse me.
Rick Blaine: You know what I want to hear.
Sam: [lying] No, I don't.
Rick Blaine: You played it for her, you can play it for me!
Sam: [lying] Well, I don't think I can remember--
Rick Blaine: If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
Captain Louis Renault: We are very honored tonight, Rick. Major Strasser is one of the reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today.
Major Heinrich Strasser: You repeat *Third* Reich as though you expected there to be others!
Captain Louis Renault: Well, personally, Major, I will take what comes.
Rick Blaine: Here's looking at you, kid.
Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Ilsa Lund: Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Captain Louis Renault: Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
Rick Blaine: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa Lund: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick Blaine: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa Lund: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick Blaine: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa Lund: But what about us?
Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.
Captain Louis Renault: Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.
Victor Laszlo: Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.
[Last line] - Rick Blaine: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The cast of this classic were
Humphrey Bogart as Richard 'Rick' Blaine, Owner Rick's Cafe Americain
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund Laszlo
Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo
Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, Prefect of Police
Conrad Veidt as Major Heinrich Strasser
Sydney Greenstreet as Senor Ferrari, Black Marketeer and Owner of Blue Parrot Cafe
Peter Lorre as Ugarte
Dooley Wilson as Sam
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P-Con VI March 27th/28th/29th 2009
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