Casablanca staring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and a host of other great actors has been voted as the #2 top movie of all time behind Citizen Kane, winning numerous awards including Best Picture in 1944.
This month we celebrate the 70th anniversary of arguable one of the best love stories to ever play on the big screen.
Fathom events and TCM hosted this big screen event in theater across the country. I for one was very excited for the opportunity to see this great movie as it was intended to be scene on the Big Screen. I have watched this movie many times but always on the small screen.
As the theater filled with fans mostly my age (50’s) or older you could feel the anticipation in the air as we all waited for the lights to dim and for Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman to take the screen.
The movie is set in Casablanca an African city located in the French fee state of Morocco during the beginnings of WWII. Buy this time Germany has occupied most of Europe including France. Men and women who are fleeing Europe ahead of the German occupation look to Casablanca as one of the last places where they can gain an Exit Visa to the United States.
Here we find Rick played by Bogart an American who can’t return to American as the saloon owner whose place of business is one of the hot spots for entertainment and other types of activities legal or otherwise. It is in Rick’s bar that the majority of the movie is played out and is where Ilsa Lund walks back into Rick’s life. In one of the great lines from the movie Rick exclaims “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
The rest you will have to watch the movie. It is too good of a love story for me to spoil it for you. Whether you see it on the big screen or the small screen it doesn’t really matter just don’t miss this movie.
Even after 70 years and countless viewing the audience sat enthralled as the action played out on the big screen. As the movie ended and the lights came back on the theater exploded into shout of joy and thunderous applause. Casablanca proved that even at 70 it is still one of the best movies of all time.
And that’s Just my 2 Bits.
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