Classic WWII Romance & Intrigue.

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2013)

Michael Curtiz directed this fondly remembered, Academy Award winning(best picture and director) film that stars Humphrey Bogart as expatriate American Rick Blaine, who owns a popular nightclub in Casablanca in the early days of WWII. Rick tries to be neutral, but that proves difficult when he obtains two valuable letters of transit wanted by French freedom fighter Victor Laszlo(played by Paul Henreid) who brings his wife Ilsa Lund(played by Ingrid Bergman) with him, who by coincidence is an old flame of Rick's. When the Nazis come looking for Victor, Rick has to choose which side he is on, no matter the cost...Classic film is as well-loved as "Gone With The Wind", and while it lacks that film's sweeping narrative, does capture its time and place quite well, with superb acting and memorable dialogue, leading to famous finale.