A hallmark of what great cinema should be. Bogart is fantastic as the stoic anti-hero, but Claude Rains steals the show in any scene he's in. Show it to the youth of today to give them a slice of true story-telling without non-stop action and gap-filler sex scenes to let them appreciate something that is ageless. It's also a good way to show where all the lines that pop up in other shows come from.

Fun to watch. Had heard of it all my life and never seen it until 2020.

I found it was a bit boring

Great, classic movie. 10/10 would recommend.

In evaluating this movie, one has to place ones' opinion back into the time period the movie was produced. I saw the original. Compared to the musicals and comedies of that era, this noir film was different and shocking. Most drama movies of the time were romances; boy meets girl, they have differences, boy regains girl, happy ending.

Casablanca was man meets old flame, woman had married another, love still persists, events could eliminate her marriage, man helps his love and spouse to flee this danger, the End.

Black and white filming adds spice to the scene.

I remembered Peter Lorre having a larger role in the drama. I must have remembered a blend of all the movies he was in in that period. Sneaky, beady eyes, sweating. Not a caractor one could trust.

Fat bellied Sidney Goldstreet appears almost as a cameo. Short scenes. Non-threatening, as he was in most other films he did. Paul Muni contributed little except for the Free French meeting speach.

Our Swedish gal, Ingrid, did her part but was a shadow of her later pics. This movie was all about Bogie and Claude Rains, the French police inspector.

A monumental American classic! Its so deeply entrenched in cinema that its familiarity and later references (including from the comedic classic "Play It Again Sam") means that it has at many points become clichéd, through no fault of its own.

VERY GOOD 1943 bit of film noir - with Humphrey Bogart doing his thing (including his almost stereotypical 'dark n' low' vocal timbre). Interesting West African setting, also when political differences descended on the various flavors of European colonial population and their homelands.,

DVD missing

I enjoyed every moment of this film. Cherchez la femme.

watched only 15 min. just couldn't get into it. i know gilmore girls loved it but it wasn't for me. maybe if i had pizza, poptarts, marshmellows and good company