Tough crowd

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2006)

If Casablanca is only 8.8 out of 10, this is a really tough crowd.
I have seen the movie over 50 times and I find something new every time. It always amazes me what moods and shades the directors and cameramen could create with black-and-white. (The only good thing about seeing the colorized version is that I had never before realized that the thing hanging on the wall in Capt. Renault's office is a map of Africa.) If I ever own a bar, it will be called "La Belle Aurore".
Much as I love Bogie and Bergman, my favorite actor in the movie is Clusde Rains. He gets very few gags, but he's the perfect straight man for the zingers written for Bogie.