1. Directed by Michael Curtiz AFI #3 Top 100 Films of All Time Citizen Kane The Godfather Casablanca CASABLANCA 1942

2. Michael Curtiz Won Best Director: Casablanca Nominated: Captain Blood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Four Daughters, Yankee Doodle Dandy

3. Casablanca Written by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch Based on an un-produced play Everybody Comes to Rick's “Near perfect entertainment balance of comedy, romance and suspense”

4. Academy Awards Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Nominated: – Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart) – Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains) – Best B/W Cinematography – Score/Editing

5. Bogart Born 1899 in NYC Father was a doctor, Family had money US Navy during WW1 Early career on Broadway LA for film work after crash of 1929 Embarrassed by his career Type-cast as gangster

6. Awards AFI # 1 male actor – Won Oscar African Queen 1952 – Nominated Caine Mutiny 1954 Casablanca 1943

7. Bergman AFI #3 Female Actor Gaslight (Best Actress) Anastasia (Best Actress) Murder on the Orient Express (Best Supporting)

8. Themes Lost love and romance within a chaotic world Honor Self-sacrifice in war

9. Casablanca Set in early 40’s during WWII: French Morocco is neutral territory where refugees from the war hope to get exit visas to Lisbon (and then to the United States)

10. Characters Bogart: Rick (owns the nightclub) Bergman: Ilsa (once Rick’s lover) Henreid: Laszlo (head of French resistance to Nazi’s) Rains: Renault (French, corrupt chief of police) grants exit visas to pretty women in exchange for sexual favors) Strasser: Nazi trying to arrest Laszlo

11. Characters Lorre: Ugarte stole the letters of transit Dooley Wilson: Sam piano player/friend Greenstreet: Signor Ferrari owns rival nightclub: The Blue Parrot

12. Plot Casablanca is the exit point to Lisbon and freedom Need exit visas (supplied and approved by the local police captain (Renault) Two German couriers carrying two unconditional visas are murdered and Ugarte gives them to Rick (Bogart) to hide for him

13. Plot Victor Laszlo (Head of the European Resistance) and Ilsa Lund come to Casablanca and are trying to obtain those visas so hero Laszlo can escape safely Ilsa and Rick had an affair in Paris while Laszlo was in a concentration camp (and presumed dead)

14. Memorable Scenes Competing national songs: In Rick’s the Nazi’s play their national anthem and Laszlo tells the band to play La Marseillaise Ending: Bergman was not told how it was going to end and they filmed two different endings

15. Most Quoted Movie Lines Here’s looking at you kid Round up the usual suspects I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship We’ll always have Paris Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine. Play it (again) Sam