Here's Looking at You, Classic Film!

1942's "Casablanca" is practically a cultural memory in this day and age, but sixty-seven years ago that was not the case or the intention.

It was a film made in the studio age. Studios were just popping films out regularly, and at the time "Casablanca" was thought to be rather unimpressive. It was later re-released due to popular demand.

This film takes place in an unoccupied province of France in Morocco called Casablanca. People trying to get to America during the Nazi's occupation were stuck indefinitely in Casablanca unless they could get a visa.

Rick Blane (Humphrey Bogart) is an American who owns Rick's Cafe Americain. He remains conveniently neutral so that his business does not suffer, but he is also a straightforward cynic. When the hero of the resistance Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) comes in for a drink with a beautiful woman (Ingrid Bergman), Rick is visibly rattled, as is the woman named Ilsa.

Old feelings are stirred and allegiances are made in Casablanca.