It amazes me how well this film still holds up nearly 70 years later. Humphrey Bogart stars as the rogue with the heart of gold. Opposite him we're charmed by Ingrid Bergman's gentle feminine nature.
She's trying to help her long lost Czech underground husband, Victor Laszlo, escape the Nazis when they happen into her former lover's North African bar. She tries to encourage her former lover to provide them with travel papers, but he's bitterly holding on to them.
Bogart's character, Rick Blaine, came upon the papers when one of his regulars, Ugarte, entrusts them to him just before he's arrested for killing the couriers who carried them. Weasel Captain Renault, the Chief of Police, informs Rick that the Gestapo want European Resistance leader Laszlo kept in Casablanca.
This film often tops lists of best ever made. It deserves every accolade. It won the Oscar for best picture for 1942. Rush out to Coos Bay or North Bend to grab a copy of this fine DVD. Look in Bandon, Coos Bay, Coquille, Myrtle Point and Powers for the VHS tape.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/
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