Rick Blaine, who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo. Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, IIsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.
June 2, 1878 in Paris, France
18 November 1892
9 March 1892, Sicily, Italy
18 April 1903, St. Petersburg, Russia
23 April 1894, Paris, France
5 August 1900, Pallagorio, Italy
June 27, 1914 in Potchefstroom, South Africa
26 June 1904, Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary [now Ruzomberok, Slovakia]
January 20, 1901 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
April 15, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA
8 May 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 January 1908, Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
4 September 1876, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
10 November 1889, Camberwell, London, England, UK
17 August 1898, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
June 26, 1892 in London, England, UK
August 15, 1891 in Paris, France
21 March 1897, Paris, France
April 16, 1882 in London, England, UK
19 August 1900, New York City, New York, USA
15 March 1886, Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
17 July 1900, Paris, France
7 March 1901, Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
26 December 1902, San Juan, Puerto Rico
20 March 1908, New York, USA
22 February 1915, Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 27, 1894 in Valencia, Spain
28 December 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
August 24, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 22, 2015
Curtiz's film is a classic for a reason -- it's crafted with the precision, detail and beauty of a Fabergé egg; the dialogue is hauntingly memorable and, in Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, it has one of the most magnetic screen pairings in history.
February 17, 2015
An entertaining adventure story played against the colorful background of the cosmopolitan city that has become an important stop on the timetable of the European refugee.
February 26, 2014
Nobody lights a torch like Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa or carries one like Humphrey Bogart's Rick.
December 28, 2016
While the future was uncertain, the resolute characters of this exquisite wartime drama found peace through love and resistance.
February 19, 2013
Casablanca is the most sociable, the most companionable film ever made. Life as an endless party.
December 20, 2014
There are some of the very finest character actors that Warner Brothers could muster and a rich, detailed screenplay studded with an indecent number of sparklingly quotable lines. It is a movie to play again, and again.
February 26, 2014
The reason Casablanca endures is that it's a timeless love story wrapped inside a gripping wartime thriller, written with such wit and meaning that it's still quoted (and misquoted) decades later.
February 22, 2015
Frankly, it's earned its reputation.
February 22, 2015
Knowing the story doesn't impair one's wonder at the undiminished magic of Casablanca.
February 26, 2014
The film's tensions, sexual and dramatic, derive from the ambiguity of characters' motives. We can never be too sure about Rick and Renault until the final fadeout.
October 03, 2015
Certainly a more accomplished cast of players cannot be imagined, and their direction by Michael Curtiz is inspired.
February 17, 2009
Nothing short of an invasion could add much to Casablanca.
