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Casablanca (1942)
Rate:
10
Viewed:
11/02, 11/03, 3/05, 4/06
4/06:
You'll find Casablanca at the top of my Best Films list because it's, without question, the best movie made.
It's perfect, perfect, perfect every step of the way, a bona fide film noir picture. A lot of people, including
the critics, still don't get this. Those who dismiss this label have no idea of what they're
talking about. Some have debated whether it's the script or the acting that makes the film. To me, it's been both.
Nobody has been better: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Paul Henreid. The first three
should've won Oscars for their timeless performances, and they'll always have a place in cinema history. It's
also one of the most quotable movies of all time with some of the best lines ever written:
"The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."
"You ran guns to Ethiopia."
"Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake."
"We'll always have Paris."
"Here's looking at you kid."
"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (the most misquoted line of all time)
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time."
"I stick my neck out for nobody."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"I'm only a poor corrupt official."
In response to "Are you sure this place is honest?", "Honest? As honest as the day is long!"
"Perhaps you have already observed that, in Casablanca, human life is cheap."
"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
All in all, movies come and go, but there will be only one Casablanca.