Casa-Blanca (1942)
Director: Michael Curtiz.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart (Richard "Rick" Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund Laszlo), Paul Henreid (Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (Capt. Louis Renault), Conrad Veidt (Maj. Heinrich Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (Senor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (Carl, Headwaiter), Madeleine LeBeau (Yvonne), Dooley Wilson (Sam), Joy Page (Annina Brandel), John Qualen (Berger), Leonid Kinskey (Sascha).
Famous love story of American expatriate Bogart runs a nightclub Casablanca in peace and quiet when his ex-lover Bergman shows up in his gin joint. She brings along her husband Heinreid, a participant in the resistance against the Germans, who needs letters of transit from Rick in order to shake the Nazis on his trail and to continue his resistance work.
The film opened Thanksgiving Day, 1942, just three weeks after the Allies had landed at Casablanca.
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