1943, 104 min., b&w (CC)

Credits: Jack Warner, producer; Michael Curtiz, director; screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, from a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Allison

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre

Summary: In Casablanca during WWII, a nightclub owner with a checkered past (Bogart) comes to the rescue of an old flame (Bergman) and her resistance-leader husband (Henreid). In the original play, Rick was a criminal defense lawyer, although his past was made intentionally mysterious by screenwriter Koch, a Columbia Law School grad and a member of the New York bar. Michael Curtiz won an Oscar for Best Director, the film won best picture, writers won best screenplay, and it has been placed in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
The special edition dvd includes: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in Carrotblanca, the pilot episode from Who Holds Tomorrow? From the 1955 tv adaptation of Casablanca, the Screen Guild Players 4/26/43 broadcast of Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henried, a musical outtakes’ and production history gallery, and the documentary Bacall on Bogart.