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Casablanca (1942)

Casablanca
Casablanca
PG
Drama
Documentary
Romance
War
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Release Date
November 26, 1942
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman , Paul Henreid , Claude Rains , Conrad Veidt , Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime
102
Main Genre
Drama
Writers
Julius J. Epstein , Philip G. Epstein , Howard Koch , Murray Burnett , Joan Alison , Casey Robinson
Tagline
They had a date with fate in Casablanca!

Summary

Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose caf� is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis. When his long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), surfaces in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them. The question is, will he?

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