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  Casablanca (1942)
The classic and much-loved romantic melodrama Casablanca (1942), always found on top-ten lists of films, is a masterful tale of two men vying for the same woman's love in a love triangle.
The story is set in early December 1941 in a city (and cafe), in a dangerous, far-off locale that is a microcosm of the wartime world.
As he informs them that the "scum of Europe has gravitated to Casablanca" and warns them to "be on guard" for "vultures," he lifts the gentleman's wallet.
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 We'll always have Paris?
Casablanca is known as a piece of classic cinema, a text that has been removed from the horrors of war.
Casablanca was released in November 1942, eighteen days after the Allied forces, under the command of Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower, landed in North Africa and liberated the Algiers, Oran and Casablanca.
Casablanca's war signifies a shift from that which is known to that which is possible.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/2/paris.html   (5088 words)

  
 As Time Goes By...
Casablanca, considered by many professional and non-professional movie critics to be the best movie ever made, was released in 1942, although its general release did not happen until January 1943.
Casablanca was just one out a hundred and luckily for Warner Bros. it turned out to be one in a million.
Casablanca was the third time Bogart and Greenstreet had worked together, the first being The Maltese Falcon and the second being Across the Pacific.
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 Casablanca: Special Edition (1942)
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list.
Casablanca will resonate with anyone who ever had to decide between their hearts and their heads, which is pretty much everybody.
Casablanca appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 Casablanca (1942) at Reel Classics
At the same time, CASABLANCA is filled with colorful supporting characters who make it humorous, melodramatic, and even adventuresome all at the same time.
If you only intend to see one classic movie in your lifetime, this is probably the one-- and please, if you're going to make the effort, don't waste your time with the colorized version; it simply isn't the same.
Above are just a few of the many posters that have been printed up for CASABLANCA over the years: At top, a window card from the original 1943 release.
www.reelclassics.com /Movies/Casablanca/casablanca.htm   (321 words)

  
 Casablanca
In the film, Casablanca is a place in unoccupied France (Marocco) where persecuted persons desperately look for exit visas to escape from Nazi influence.
In Casablanca she tells him that only during their last days in Paris did she learn that her husband had not died in the concentration camp and that was why she could not join him again.
In 1942, movie censorship reigned supreme and improper sexual content was eliminated from Casablanca, for instance a woman who was to have said: "It used to take a villa at Cannes, or at the very least, a string of pearls.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo3/casablanca.htm   (793 words)

  
 Casablanca as Great Art
Casablanca was considered to be a very good movie right from the time of its release in 1942.
Casablanca was his major example of scripts so out of control that the writers had to rewrite while the movie was shooting and, thus, were not available for any other work." [Harmetz, p.
Casablanca is about the decision of one particular American to forgo a particular personal relationship for the good of humanity, to join the fight against Fascism.
www.serve.com /Lucius/Casablanca.index.html   (10107 words)

  
 Casablanca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With a population of 3.5 million (September 2004 census), Casablanca is Morocco's biggest city as well as its chief port, and is thus considered its economic capital, while its political capital is Rabat.
According to the census of 2002, the population of Casablanca is around 3.5 million.
Casablanca is home to the Hassan II Mosque, designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casablanca   (1774 words)

  
 FFC Presents Bogart on DVD: CASABLANCA (TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION)
Casablanca is legendary, and that forgives a lot of its blemishes.
What works about Casablanca is its feeling of scope and its importance not only to the history of film, but to world history--a line referring to everyone being asleep all over America is poignant because at the time of its writing, the United States had yet to enter the war.
That being said, Ebert's Casablanca commentary is less incisive than the work he did for Kane, and either recording falls short of his exceptional yakker for the DVD of Alex Proyas' Dark City.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/bogartcasablanca.htm   (963 words)

  
 Casablanca Fan Company
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Each Casablanca fan is created with an eye for timeless design, to be a classic fixture in the home that is enjoyed for generations.
With this in mind, perhaps the most beautiful aspect of a Casablanca fan is that it makes its owner's home a more comfortable place to live.
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 TAP: Web Feature: Usual Suspect. by Morgan Meis. June 20, 2003.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Seeing Casablanca in international headlines has the effect, at least for most Americans, of calling to mind the film of the same name.
Casablanca is a movie about that way of being; it glories in that way of being.
Casablanca is, at its core, a tribute to civil society, to faith in the institution-building aspect of human reason.
www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/06/meis-m-06-20.html   (1126 words)

  
 Today in History: November 26
Morocco's chief port city, Casablanca was the setting of both the film and, later, of a major conference of the allied leadership.
Casablanca suffered severe bombardment during "Operation Torch," the Allied invasion of North Africa under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower.
At the Casablanca Conference the Allied leadership developed a unified military strategy, and decided Germany, Italy, and Japan must surrender unconditionally.
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 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Disney (The Plane Truth)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Casablanca began filming just a few months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when military security in southern California was at its height in anticipation of another Japanese attack on the aircraft manufacturing facilities and military installations found along the coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
Therefore, Casablanca was shot entirely on soundstages at the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank; and Soundstage #1, which was used for the film's climactic airport scene, wasn't large enough to accommodate a real airplane.
Midgets garbed in jumpsuits were hired to move in and around the replica planes to camouflage their smaller-than-life scale, and the whole scene was swathed in machine-generated fog to further conceal the artificiality of the setting.
www.snopes.com /disney/parks/casablan.htm   (604 words)

  
 casablanca | movie classic, directed by michael curtiz (1942)
Even today, viewers are deeply moved by scenes in Casablanca that tug at their heartstrings with near magical power.
Many fans of Casablanca also love the film's deceptively simple dialogue, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch and based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Burnett/Alison.
The cinema release in January 1943 coincided with the Casablanca conference of Anglo-American heads of state.
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 Title: "Casablanca" - Topics: World/WW II, France & Morocco; U.S./1941 - 1945; World War II; World War ...
to "Casablanca" provides the background and discussion questions needed to explore the issues raised by the film and to use it as a supplement to classes in U.S. history of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Casablanca, one of the most popular movies ever made, is a fabulous story of love and redemption.
Casablanca is a classic that is frequently referred to in literature, the media and conversation.
www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/casablanca.html   (668 words)

  
 An MBendi Profile: Casablanca Stock Exchange - Overview
The Casablanca Stock Exchange in Morocco is a small but active stock exchange in Africa.
The Casablanca and Tunisian stock markets are covered in a quarterly report on Arab stock exchanges established by the Abu Dhabi-based Arab Monetary Fund.
The Index de la Bourse des Valeurs de Casablanca increased by more than 365 to 57,126 at the end of 1996, up from 41,929 at the end of 1995.
www.mbendi.co.za /exmo.htm   (370 words)

  
 Casablanca >> German-Hollywood Connection
There were no Germans in Casablanca, certainly not in uniform, no letters of transit, there was nothing.
As Casablanca producer Hal B. Wallis rightfully arose to accept the Academy Award for Warners, he was dumbfounded to see Jack Warner rush ahead of him, dash to the stage, and accept the statuette for Casablanca!
Casablanca was one of his last pictures for Warner Brothers.
www.germanhollywood.com /casabl.html   (1764 words)

  
 Casablanca : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Casablanca
There is a difference between being lucky and being good.People often mistake "Casablanca" as one of the greatest films of all time because director Michael Curtiz stumbled upon an ending he didn't have when he began the film.
The funniest thing about "Casablanca" is the premise that the letters of transit that Rick holds would actually get Ilsa and her underground leader husband, Victor (Paul Henreid) out of Morocco.
Certainly, "Casablanca" has some of the most memorable lines in film history, but again, here is where greatness needs to be distinguished from luck.
www.mrcranky.com /movies/casablanca.html   (769 words)

  
 The History of Casablanca Records © 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The purpose of this online reference is merely to detail the US album and single releases through Casablanca records from 1973 to 1985.
For the first half of 1974 Casablanca was distributed through Warner Bros. By 1981 they were distributed through PolyGram.
Casablanca was founded in 1973 by Neil Bogart and became home to many of the 1970's biggest recording stars.
www.kissfaq.com /casa   (177 words)

  
 As Time Goes By - the casablanca fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: )
You have stumbled across As Time Goes By, a fanlisting devoted to Casablanca, one of the greatest movies ever made and the winner of the 1943 Oscar for Best Picture.
Cosidered by many to be a perfect movie, Casablanca is full of intrigue, humor and is one of the greatest cinematic love stories.
Casablanca is copyright © Warner Bros. No infringement is intended.
www.harsh-light.com /casablanca   (140 words)

  
 GoneMovie.com Review -> Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. Directed by Michael Curtiz   (Site not responding. Last check: )
People come from all over to Casablanca, which still has an uneasy independence, to try to get exit visas to countries that are still free.
Although the film already premiered November 1942 in New York, Warner Brothers delayed the Los Angeles release of Casablanca to coincide with the big Allied conference in Casablanca, North Africa (January 23, 1943).
Now Bogey was a big star and he made classics like Casablanca and The African Queen.
www.gonemovies.com /WWW/Drama/Drama/EnglischCasablanca.asp   (739 words)

  
 Casablanca (1942)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
'Casablanca' is considered as one of the greatest American movies ever made I and totally agree.
The story about Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and his American bar in Casablanca, which belongs to unoccupied France during World War II, and how he meets a girl again is perfect.
Now back in Casablanca she is married to a guy named Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid).
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 Casablanca (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The website angryalien.com produced a remake of Casablanca in its 30-Second Bunnies Theater.
This was briefly made available on home video, but its unpopularity with fans caused the altered version to fade away, though the colorized version is still broadcast in other places, such as Hong Kong.
In the Spanish dubbing during the Franco era, the fact that Rick had worked for the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War was edited out.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casablanca_(film)   (5349 words)

  
 Casablanca, Morocco: Time did go by   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If the Hollywood image of 'Casablanca' is important to you, prepare for a shock from Casablanca.
People visiting Casablanca as their first city, could easily end up hating this place: There are few things here confirming the newcomers conception on the Orient.
If anything in Casablanca should fit the Casablanca of Bergman and Bogart, it should be the old city.
www.lexicorient.com /morocco/casablanca.htm   (272 words)

  
 Casablanca (1942) - Memorable quotes
Ugarte: You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
I ask you as a favor, to use the letters to take her away from Casablanca.
We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0034583/quotes   (2949 words)

  
 Casablanca Movie Quotes and Trivia
We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca.
Humphrey Bogart was defeated for the best actor award by Paul Lukas for "Watch on the Rhine." Ingrid Bergman wasn't even nominated.
That the script was constantly revised, often by Bogart himself, so that the actors didn't know until the last moment how the story would end.
www.fiftiesweb.com /movies/casablanca.htm   (538 words)

  
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