Casablanca

Romance, Thriller, War

Ingrid Bergman	Ilsa Lund Laszlo
Humphrey Bogart	Richard Blaine
Sydney Greenstreet	Senor Ferrari
Paul Henreid	Victor Laszlo
Peter Lorre	Ugarte
Joy Page	Annina Brandel
Claude Rains	Captain Louis Renault
S.Z. Sakall	Carl
Conrad Veidt	Major Heinrich Strasser
Dooley Wilson	Sam
Madeleine LeBeau	Yvonne

Director	Michael Curtiz; Michael Rains
Producer	Jack L. Warner; Hal B. Wallis
Writer	Murray Burnett; Joan Alison; Howard Koch; Julius J. Epstein
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Musician	Max Steiner

Set in WWII in Morocco, Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) owns a popular nightclub. An ex-lover, Ilsa Lund, runs into him in his club. She is there with her husband who is running from the Germans, and they are trying to get to the US. Rick has possession of two "letters of transit" which are valuable documents allowing two people to go to Lisbon, Portugal and then on to America. Ilse and her husband, Viktor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) want to buy the letters. She even threatens Rick at gunpoint to get them, but won't shoot, because she still loves Rick. Rick, who still has feelings for her, too, pays off officials, keeps Viktor out of jail, and arranges for a plane to take Viktor to Lisbon. Rick pretends that Ilse will stay behind with him when her husband leaves. However, at the plane he makes her get on with her husband and fly to safety.