Beloved by audiences and critics all over the world especially Sanjay Dutt and Katrina Kaif......even after 65 years of release it is still popular...it is much better than the over hyped and boring Citizen Kane.....Released on January 23rd 1943 the movie was about the decision one man had to take....love or virtue.....the movie was adapted from the play titled “Everybody comes to Ricks”....which is a cafe run by a cynical ex patriot Rick Blaine( Humphrey Bogart in perhaps the most memorable movie role of all time ) who comes across his former lover Ilsa( a luminous looking Ingrid Bergman) and her resistance leader husband Victor( Paul Henreid in an understated performance)....
often called as an accidental masterpiece...the script kept changing on a daily basis.....in my opinion IT IS/WAS/EVER THE GREATEST FILM THAT CAN NEVER CAN BE MATCHED FOR ETERNITY....the greatest script ever, the greatest supporting cast of all time ,the greatest screen couple, the greatest opening sequence, the greatest climax , the most romantic film, the most memorable one liners ( here's lookin' at you kid , of all the gin joints in all the towns and places in the world she walks into mine, we will always have Paris).....the color version pales in comparison to the beautiful black and white version.....perhaps the biggest blunders the academy ever committed till now and for eternity is by giving Casablanca only 3 academy awards ,rejecting bogie,bergman,max steiner,claude rains in their respective categories.
the movie is nostalgic,patriotic,funny,romantic...not many people know but former American president Ronald Reagan was considered for the part of Rick Blaine!!!!!!!may this movie continue to enthrall audiences for generations to come...
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