Casablanca

Casablanca is a 1942 film about an American expatriate owner of an upscale club and gambling den in the Moroccan city of Casablanca who meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Directed by Michael Curtiz. Written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, based on play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.

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Rick Blaine

• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
  • Ranked #67 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

• Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
  • Ranked #20 in the "100 Movie Quotes" list

Captain Louis Renault

• I'm only a poor corrupt official.

• [about Ugarte] I'm making out the report now. We haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.

• I am shocked — shocked— to find that gambling is going on in here!

• Major Strasser has been shot. [pause] Round up the usual suspects.
  • Ranked #32 in the "100 Movie Quotes" list

Dialogue

Renault: I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a Senator's wife? I like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.

Rick: It's a combination of all three.

Renault: And what in Heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?

Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.

Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.

Rick: I was misinformed.

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Ilsa: Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake.

Sam: I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.

Ilsa: [whispered] Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.

Sam: Why, I can't remember it, Miss Ilsa. I'm a little rusty on it.

Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. [Ilsa hums two bars. Sam starts to play] Sing it, Sam.

Sam: [singing] You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.

Lyrics and Music by Herman Hupfeld (1931)

• "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By" is #28 in the AFI's list of the top 100 movie quotations; it is often misquoted as "Play it again, Sam".

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Rick: 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: But what about us?

Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it before...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you...

Rick: 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. Here's looking at you, kid.

• "We'll always have Paris" is ranked #43 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema; "Here's looking at you, kid" is ranked #5.

Taglines

• Mysterious City of Sin and Intrigue!

• They had a date with fate in Casablanca!

• As big and timely a picture as ever you've seen! You can tell by the cast it's important! Gripping! Big!

Cast:

• Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine
• Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund
• Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo
• Claude Rains - Capt. Louis Renault
• Conrad Veidt - Maj. Heinrich Strasser
• Sydney Greenstreet - Signor Ferrari
• Peter Lorre - Guillermo Ugarte
• S.K. Sakall - Carl
• Madeleine LeBeau - Yvonne
• Dooley Wilson - Sam