The legendary feature film, directed by Michael Curtiz, can be seen from Thursday, October 13 in the country’s movie theaters, with a re-release to celebrate the film’s 80th anniversary at the end of November. The winner of the Oscar for best film, best director and best screenplay, is one of the most memorable films of the golden cinema of Hollywood.
With a script based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s -of Murray Burnett and Joan Alison– and adapted by the twins Julius and Philip Epstein Y Howard Koch, the film hit the big screen on November 26, 1942 with its New York premiere, and became an absolute success. This week, it is shown on the networks Cinemark Hoyts, Cinépolis, Showcase, Cinemacenter, Atlas Y Lorca among others and in different parts of the country.
Produced by the studios Warner Bros, White House It was the bet of the film entrepreneur jack warner to take a stand against Nazi Germany in the Second World War in 1942. USA had already declared war on the Japanese Empire and its Axis allies for the air attack on Pearl Harbor. Several “Mayors”, the name given to the most dominant film studios in the film market, spoke out against the opposing side by producing war films and dramas about the war.
Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and ingrid bergmanrecounts the life of the American expatriate Rick Blaine, the cynical owner of a popular nightclub in the Moroccan city of the same name. The arrival of various refugees and Nazi leaders turns the town into a powder keg about to explode, especially with the arrival of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo along with his wife.
Many myths surrounded Curtiz’s film, the constant changes in the script and in the production created an expectation about the outcome of the story. For this reason, various optional endings with the cast were filmed on set. The mythical phrase that the character of Ilsa asks the pianist to play the song “As time goes by” it is “Play it once, Sam”. However, the renowned “Play it again, Sam” corresponds to a humorous license of the film “Dreams of a Seducer” 1972, starring Woody Allen.
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