Casablanca / African Queen (Double Feature)

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, et al.

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• Format: DVD
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Directors: Michael Curtiz, John Huston
• Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Paul Henreid
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Make it a Bogie night.

Everyone is in love with Rick. It is 1942, the Nazi occupation of France. Refugees must take a long and torturous route through Casa Blanca on their way to America; there, “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” Rick’s is a nightclub and a way station for a chance to get to America. Humphrey Bogart plays Rick. Here we also stay for a while to watch a drama unfold. There are overlapping stories. One of a young couple trying to get to America, and the girl, wondering if a girl should have to do something naughty, was wondering what would happen if her husband, “a boy in many ways”, found out. A second-rate crook (Peter Lorre) obtains something of value at the expense of two German carriers. A Police Captain (Claude Rains) is shocked to find there is gambling going on at Rick’s as he stuffs his pocket with his gambling earnings. Many other stories surround the main theme of a love triangle that started in Paris and now can mean so much to individuals or the effort for freedom. Will the Nazis win their prize? Will Capt. Renault get the young girl? Will Rick get away with Ilsa? This film has become quite a classic. There are many quotes and misquotes attributed to the film. You will find yourself kibitzing. One memorable scene for all is the showdown where the Germans are singing “Watch on the Rhine,” and Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau) overpowers them, leading the “La Marsayez” (French national anthem). Cannot tell if it is Blu-ray or just the big screen, but many details are suddenly visible. It does not add to the story, but it improves the viewing experience. ---------------------------------------------------------- Great story, punctuated by a great making of the film on the Blu-ray Based on a novel by C.S. Forester, adapted for the screen by Director / Writer John Huston. It is September 1914, in Africa during WW1, and everyone is escaping the Huns. An unlikely pair, drunkard Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and the reverend’s (Robert Morley) spinster sister, Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn), escape down the river from a relationship that may prove fatal to the German pride gunboat “The Louisa” with a 6-pounder. And then again, we must get past rapids, leeches, and a German Fort. Usually, Blu-ray only enhances the visuals, not the story or dialogue. However, with this presentation, the DVD extra enhances the movie. Watch the film again after watching the extras. I did not realize that the film was shot in Technicolor. The sound (probably due to a better T.V. seems to have improved also.