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Casablanca
© Warner Bros. - all rights reserved |
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| Released: |
1942 |
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| Genre: |
DRAMA
UNDERRATED
ROMANCE
WAR
WORLD WAR II
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
102 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| | | Some of the characterizations are a bit on the overdone side. | | | | | (Variety) | | | A busy film with bright lines, a perfunctory romance and a dim message. | | | | | (C. A. Lejeune, Observer) | | | The drama has all the subtlety of a three-alarm fire, but the blaze is attractive. | | | | | (Herb Sterne, Rob Wagner's Script) | | | The ending is satisfactory enough, if a bit hasty and arbitrary. Up to then it is superb melodrama, so expert that it almost gives the illusion of character creating events instead of a plot-spinner skillfully manipulating his puppets. That they never seem like puppets is due to the first-rate workmanship that a fine cast, fine direction, and a dramatic camera instinct put into the picture, with the anonymous help of the people who build the scenes and set the lights. And somehow there comes out of it a conviction that people, in these times, cannot run away from the decency that is in them, not even at Rick's, in Casablanca. | | | | | (James Shelley Hamilton, New Movies) | | | Amusing, enjoyable and a good drug in the way in which Agatha Christie... is a good drug. | | | | | (Sunday Times) | | | | A movie that demonstrates how entertaining a bad movie can be. | | | | | (Pauline Kael, 70s) | | | If you analyse it, it's not a good movie, it's pure melodrama. For instance, Casablanca never was an escape route out of France during the war. It's absurd. They invented the whole thing - but with such panache and conviction that you really have to get down and think hard about it to say this is rubbish. | | | | | (Barry Norman, 1980s) | | | Excessively romantic... B picture values except for the superb cast. | | | | | (David Shipman, The Good Film and Video Guide, 1986) | |
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, Ingrid Bergman 
