Casablanca
1942 | Romance | USA | Directed by Michael Curtiz
Overview
Of all the gin joints, the luckiest accident in studio history. A wartime script rewritten daily became the most quotable film ever made. Bogart and Bergman sacrifice love for the cause, Dooley Wilson plays it again, and the ending invented romantic renunciation. Three Oscars including Best Picture. Perfect partly because it was never planned to be.
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