I absolutely love this film - an all time classic - a simple love story:-
Guy meets girl.
Guy loses girl.
Guy gets girl back - but...
If you've not seen this film - you really should. It is a "classic" love film - one that just couldn't be made today.
It includes the often (mis) quoted lines:-
"Play it again Sam"
"We'll always have Paris"
"Round up the Usual Suspects" - many years later the title of the film of the same name. A modern classic.
And the entire song by Dooley Wilson - "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is still a sigh...."
"You know Louie - this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship" - The last line of the film
An all time classic film - for good reason, and it stands up to repeat watching again and again - but really a classic "by accident".
The script was written about a day or so ahead of the scenes being acted. Bogart and Bergman complained - they didn't know how the play the part - "is the guy gonna get the girl or what?".
Another detail lost over the years - the "big star" of the day - the person who was paid the most on the film set - was Paul Henreid - (Paul who). They guy who played the husband of Ingrid Bergman's character. After the screen tests - it was clear Bogart and Bergman had stolen the show, and it propelled Bogart into stardom - he became the highest paid actor of the time.
With great supporting actors including "The Fat Man" from The Maltese Falcon (Sydney Greenstreet) and Peter Lorre - and the wry chief of police played by Claude Rains. It's a terrific cast.
We'll always have.....Casablanca