Casablanca

Casablanca was directed by Michael Curtiz (1943). The film starred Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo.

The film is set at the start of WWII. Refugees travel to Casablanca and desperately wait for a Visa to travel to America. Rick (Bogart) owns a very popular nightclub, Rick’s Café Americain, where people go to drink and gamble. Rick is selfish and bitter. He lost the love of his life, Ilsa (Bergman). Ilsa left him at the train station in Paris with a note.

Ilsa travels to Casablanca with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Henreid). Victor is a Resistance leader, who escaped from a concentration camp. The Germans want to keep him in Casablanca. Victor is asking around if anyone has a Visa for him and Ilsa. But the only person that can help them out is Rick. Rick was left with “letters of transit.” Both Ilsa and Victor try and ask Rick for the letters but Rick refuses. Rick tells Victor to, “Ask your wife,” why he won’t give them the letters.

Victor then figures out that something happened between them but all he cares about is getting Ilsa out of Casablanca. Rick is torn between being with the woman he loves and helping the women he loves escape with her husband.

Rick and Ilsa were in love with each other. But once Ilsa found out that Victor was alive she left Rick. In the end, you are sort of hoping that Rick and Ilsa end up together. But Rick knows that Ilsa is meant to be with Victor which is why he tells her to get on the plane.

Casablanca is constintly rank near the top of every greatest movie list.

Netflix has the movie available for rent. Amazon also has it on sale. The prices range from $5.27 to $18.10, brand new.