I thought this was a GREAT movie!

One thing confused me though. Why did Renault throw the bottle in the garbage can at the end? Is it because he is giving up drinking, or is there significance in the bottle being French?

Mike, it's significant because it's Vichy Water.

IMHO, this is the greatest film ever made (Go away all you Orson Welles fans!)!!!

Love, Action, Betrayal, Humor, and Pathos...

Not to mention the young Ingrid Bergman (they don't make them like that anymore!)!!!!

I love Casablanca. But I also love Citizen Kane. Kane is a great, powerful character study as well as a cinematic tour de force. Casablanca on the other hand, has the character study and action to boot. I also happen to have both DVDs in my collection.

While I'm not sure I can say it's the greatest films of all, Casablanca is definitely one of the top five best.

Come to think of it, I haven't watched Casablanca in awhile. I think I'll pop it into the ol' DVD player. Thanks for reminding me of it, Scott!

Run, don't walk, to the nearest video store, and buy the special 60th anniversary DVD re-issue of Casablanca. The first DVD has an introduction by Bogart's last wife, Lauren Bacall, a pristine digital transfer of the film, and two commentary tracks. The second DVD has too many features to list here.

Hmm... I've been boycotting DVD purchases as a kind of a protest, but that's darn near enough to make me break my boycott!

Roger Ebert, in his commentary track, pointed out what he called "a famous continuity error," although I had never heard it mentioned before. Rick, along with Sam, is waiting in the rain to board a train. At that time, Rick's raincoat is wet. When we see him board the train, however, the coat is bone dry

Uh, I guess I missed it, Scott. Just why are you boycotting DVDs?

Personal protest against the MPAA... DMCA, Region Coding, DeCSS suit, etc... Anything more belongs over in PM.

No need to go into any details, sir. I kinda thought it was something along those lines. Just wanted to be sure.

IIRC, it is because of the practice of region encoding, among other "anti-piracy" policies.

Normally, I'd suggest you use the Keyword Search feature to find Scott's previous posts, or search myself and provide a link, but so much has been said on these boards about DVDs, regions, and encoding that there were too many hits to effectively find the threads where Scott explains his position.

So we'll just have to wait until Scott gears himself up to repeat himself one more time.

Sorry, took too long typing. Scott answered ahead of me.

All right. This is doubly difficult for me to admit, both since I'm moderator of Movies and because I've based my Kitchen Sink as an homage to it, but tonight was the first time I've seen this film.

I can only say, perfect, from beginning to end. They really, really don't make them like this anymore.

Conrad Veidt, who played Major Strasser in this film, also starred in the silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, playing the murderous somnambulist Cesare.

"I stick my neck out for nobody."