Subj : Casablanca (1942)
To   : ARELOR
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 17:10:00

SPOILERS!!!!

>If you have not watched this movie yet, go watch it, because they no longer mak
>them
>like this anymore!

They sure don't!!!

My all-time favorite movie.  My take on Ilsa is a little more forgiving
than yours, though.  She thought her husband was dead and found herself
alone in a war-torn country.  She later found out that her husband was not
dead.  There she made a decision that one might expect, but was not one
that she made Rick completely aware of.

Sydney Greenstreet played the owner of the Blue Parrot, Peter Lorre played the
smuggler of the letters of transit, and Paul Henreid was Lazlo.

Greenstreet and Lorre had worked together with Bogart at least once before
(The Maltese Falcon (1941), another great movie and Greenstreet's on-screen
debut), and would work together again after.  I was always disappointed
that Bogart and Henreid never worked together again, though.  Henreid would
later go on to do some directing, including some episodes of the Alfred
Hitchock TV show.

The director, Michael Curtiz, directed several great movies.  One of his
rare horror movies, Dr. X, included Fay Wray's first on-screen scream,
before she went on to star in King Kong.  :)  He also directed the original
version of Mystery of the Wax Museum (also staring Wray), a movie that would
be remade several years later as a Vincent Price thriller called House of
Wax.  Both of these movies were also done in color, very rare at the time.

I am not a big fan of modern-day horror flicks, but I really like both of
these.  I usually try to watch one, or both, of them around Halloween each
year.


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