As time goes by...

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2007)

You must remember this...Casablanca.A true classic from 1942 that introduces us Rick Blaine, a character made famous by Humphrey Bogart.Rick is the owner of "Rick's Café Américain" in Casablanca, Morocco.There is the war going on and the Nazis are causing trouble.One day his old flame Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) walks in with her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid).The one woman he'd rather forget walks into his bar, back to his life.The woman that left him heart broken in Paris.Victor has seen the horrors of concentration camp and he might be going there again.He needs Rick's help.And so does Ilsa.Michael Curtiz is the director of this all-time classic.Humphrey Bogart is one of the coolest men that has ever walked upon this Earth.That's one reason why he's perfect in the lead of this movie.He speaks all his lines with such coolness no other man could ever do.And then there's Ingrid Bergman.In her these two qualities were combined: talent and beauty.Paul Henreid is very fine as Victor.The great Peter Lorre is Ugarte.Claude Reins plays Captain Renault in masterly way.The very good Conrad Veidt plays the bad Major Strasser and he does it with style.And then there's of course Sam who plays some classic tunes with his piano.He's played by Dooley Wilson.The beautiful Joy Page plays Annina Brandel, the young Bulgarian refugee.Madeleine Lebeau is also a real looker, and she plays Yvonne, Rick's soon-discarded girlfriend.Her husband of that time, Marcel Dalio plays Emil the croupier.Casablanca is very well remembered from its classic lines, including "We'll always have Paris".And you can hear Bogie repeatedly using the words "Here's looking at you, kid".It's been 65 years since this picture was made.As time goes by the respect only grows for movies like Casablanca.