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Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

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Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

Casablanca (1942)
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS| NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scans | 01:42:29 | 5,26 Gb + 5,50 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - each AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance | 2-Disc Special Edition

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein (screenplay), Philip G. Epstein (screenplay)
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during the early part of WWII. Despite pressure from the local authorities, notably the crafty Capt. Renault (Claude Rains), Rick's café has become a haven for refugees looking to purchase illicit letters of transit which will allow them to escape to America. One day, to Rick's great surprise, he is approached by the famed rebel Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), Rick's true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris. She still wants Victor to escape to America, but now that she's renewed her love for Rick, she wants to stay behind in Casablanca. "You must do the thinking for both of us," she says to Rick. He does, and his plan brings the story to its satisfyingly logical, if not entirely happy, conclusion.

IMDB - Top 250 #46 | Won 3 Oscars | DVDBeaver | Rober Ebert's Review | Wikipedia | Rotten Tomatoes

There are many people for whom Casablanca is the greatest Hollywood movie ever made, and, while that may be going a bit far, one would be hard-pressed to think of another film in which the pieces fell together with such serendipity. It's hard to imagine a movie in which the leads are better cast: Humphrey Bogart's tough, effortless cool gives Rick the ideal balance of honor and cynicism, Ingrid Bergman's luminous beauty makes it seem reasonable that men would fight for Ilsa's affections, and Paul Henreid's Victor is cold enough that you can imagine Ilsa's being tempted by her old flame. The supporting cast is superb down the line; Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Dooley Wilson, and S.Z. Sakall are all so memorable that one tends to forget that none is onscreen for very long. The screenplay often walks the border of cliché, but the story has just enough twists, and the dialogue so much snap, that it stays compelling throughout. And Michael Curtiz knew just when to turn on the schmaltz and when to cut it off. Casablanca blends romance, suspense, humor, and patriotic drama with such skill that one imagines it must have happened by accident, and the movie looks better with each passing year. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cheer, and the good guys strike a blow against fascism – what more could you want from a movie?
Mark Deming, Rovi
Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

Casablanca has my vote for the best film ever made. There are others more artistic, still others more technically challenging, but what other film is as beautiful or iconic? It's the definitive romance, perhaps because it's about something more than the romance between two people. The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, as one of a dozen oft-repeated quotes from the movie go. But how much the problems of three little people can seem to those three little people! Perhaps part of the enduring appeal of Casablanca is that almost all of us can relate to at least one of the three, if not two or all three. These characters handle their problems with the honor and dignity we dream of for ourselves. That's a romance.

Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

As if Casablanca didn't play beautifully enough on the small screen, the movie-going experience simply does not get any better than watching it in a darkened theater with a date and a bucket of popcorn. Even knowing how it all turns out, I still find it a profoundly moving experience. Like all great films, it only improves with successive viewings. Partly, this is because the film is so richly textured that I notice and appreciate new details with each viewing. But another reason is that, the more life experiences I bring to the film, the more it can relate them back to me. Casablanca has an uncanny understanding of the human heart.
At-A-Glance Review
Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

Although it was made in 1942, "Casablanca" is still the greatest romantic drama ever made. The obsessive longing and regret that Humphrey Bogart's Rick and Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa feel for one another is magnified by the relentless social conditions that they find themselves in when fate brings them together after many years apart. World War II Casablanca is a dangerous place for an ex-patriate American, and even more so for the girl of a French Resistance Freedom Fighter (Paul Henreid's Victor Laszlo). Casablanca is the exotic location where a separated couple of dyed-in-the-wool lovers can reinvent their overpowering mutual love should they so choose, unless Rick, an apparent apolitical cynic, opts to sacrifice their once-in-a-lifetime chance in the name of a greater human cause. Such is the nature of director Michael Curtiz's film that features remarkable performances from Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains. Broken into three clearly defined acts–the script was based on a stage play–and beautifully filmed with noir-inflected shadows by the great cinematographer Arthur Edeson ("The Maltese Falcon"), "Casablanca" has a way of refreshing itself the more times you view it. Between the heavily layered visual image systems at work, and the crisscrossing elements of social unrest and suppressed emotion, lies a movie that captures romantic lightening in a bottle. It doesn't hurt that Bogart and Bergman come together like flash paper to flame. The bitter sweetness of love never looked, or sounded, so good.
Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

The 2003 two-disc set was perfect in nearly every way, and casual fans will do fine to pick that one up, ignoring the double dip here. (You really don't need the Warner bio or the lobby cards.) But! It's such a tremendous package, capturing all the greatness of the two-disc set while piling on some attractive trinkets, that this, too, deserves a spot in the DVD Talk Collector Series. After all, it's the best movie ever made, delivered here in a ridiculously lavish set that celebrates the film gloriously. Here's looking at you, kid.
Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

Strange to think that one of the greatest movies of all time started life on the studio assembly line. Casablanca barely scraped A-list status when Warner Bros cobbled it together from a stage play that hadn't been performed (Everybody Comes To Rick's), about the seedy Moroccan waystation where desperate World War Two refugees tried to secure passage to America. They even cast an actor (Humphrey Bogart) who was mostly confined to gruff supporting parts, and had to borrow their leading lady (Ingrid Bergman) from a rival studio.

Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

Who would have had any inkling that this unassuming duo would strike cinema's brightest romantic sparks, or that this "sophisticated hokum" (as its own producer labelled it) would come to define the word `timeless'? Certainly not the director Michael Curtiz, whose brusque manner exasperated his stars; nor the actors, who were subjected to almost daily script revisions and routinely kept in the dark (like, was Ilsa meant to be more in love with her ex-flame Rick or resistance-leader husband Victor?).

Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

As the hardbitten American nightclub owner who sticks his neck out for nobody, Bogart's Rick is casual and offhand, but never loses our sympathy - look at the anguish on his face when he realises Ilsa's abandoned him in Paris - while every emotion flows like liquid across Bergman's gorgeous (and gorgeously lit) face. Around them swirl one of the most memorable supporting casts ever assembled, an appetisingly shady line-up of crooks, schemers and Nazi nasties played by the talented likes of Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet and Conrad Veidt.

Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

One of those rare films where every shot and every quotable line of dialogue counts, there's not a dead patch in Casablanca. But it's been enshrined in cinema's pantheon of greatness for so long that, like Citizen Kane, people forget why it deserves to be there. If you're part of the post-Spielberg generation wondering what all the fuss is about, then don't wait any longer to find out. It could be the start of a beautiful friendship…

Casablanca (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]

Special Features:
- New digital transfer

Disc One:
- Commentary by critic Roger Ebert
- Commentary by author-historian Rudy Behlmer
- Introduction by Lauren Bacall
- Theatrical trailer
- 50th Anniversary re-release trailer
- "A Great Cast is Worth Repeating" text notes
- Bonus trailers: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood"
- Cast and crew list; Awards list

Disc Two:
- "As Time Goes By: The Children Remember (6:47)" -featurette
- 2 deleted scenes (1:41)
- 8 outtakes (5:00)
- Scoring stage sessions (six vocal tracks from Dooley Wilson, and 2 instrumental)
- "Bacall On Bogart (83:37)" -documentary
- "You Must Remember This: A Tribute To Casablanca (34:40)" -documentary
- Screen Guild Theater Radio Show (1943)
- Television Adaptation, 1955: "Who Holds Tomorrow (17:54)"
- Cartoon Homage, 1995: Carrotblanca (8:04)
- Production notes (12:32)

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