Here's Looking At You Kid

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2020)

What can you say that hasn't been said before.
There are a few films that have a lot of sycophants that talk rubbish about so called top films when they are nothing of the sort, this is not one of those films.
I am not a fan of Romantic Drama's but this is not a run of the mill film, this is Casablanca, probably the best Romantic Drama ever.
Humphrey Bogart is excellent, as is Ingrid Bergman and the rest are good as well, Conrad Veidt was good as the nasty German, it was directed well and excellent dialogue, photography is poor though, but that is the nature of the times and type of film, music is spot on.
It is not perfect though, the dialogue is a bit too sharp early in the film and there are several scenes where people order drinks and leave either before receiving them or after only 1 sip, so that was a bit forced, but it relaxed a bit later on, like as if the characters were getting used to each other, but the slow build works up to an excellent ending, the photography is a bit dark and it would have been nice if Peter Lorre stayed in the film a little longer, I think they could have lengthened the movie to 2hrs from the 1hr 45mins it is, and it would have been better.
Nevertheless it is still a great film, worth the plaudits and its place in movie history.
Bogart did say "Here's Looking at You Kid" a few times, and the ".....not worth a hill of beans...." sentence, but never said "Play it again Sam", however he did say "Play it Sam, You played it for her so you can play it for me"
Sam you can play this again and again.