Casablanca Movie Review
Catherine Cox
October 10, 2011
Casablanca Movie Review
Grade 9 drama A
The movie watched from September 26th to the 28th in Mr. Sheridan’s class was Casablanca. It was produced by Hal .B. Wallis, directed by Michael Curtiz with music done by Max Steiner. It is based on a play written by Murray Burnett and Joan Allison called “Everybody comes to Rick’s”, a contract was signed by the original writers, giving Warner Bros. complete ownership of the play. Warner Bros. then hired Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch to write the screenplay. The stars hired for the film were Humphrey Bogart who played Richard (Rick) Blain, Ingrid Bergman who played Ilsa Lund, Paul Henreid who played Victor Laszlow, Claude Rains who played Captain Lois Renaud, Conrad Veidt playing the role of Admiral Strasser, Sydney Greenstreet who played the role of Mr.Ferarri, Peter Lorre who played Ugate, Leonid Kinsky who played Sascha, Madeleine LeBeau who played the role of Yvonne and Dooley Wilson, playing the role of Sam. Casablanca has two setting throughout the movie. The first is in the continent of Africa, the country of Morocco, in the city of Casablanca in 1943. The second is a flashback that takes place a year earlier in 1942 in Paris, France. Victor Laslow, an anti-Nazi who has recently escaped from a concentration camp and his wife, the beautiful Ilsa Lund (or Laslow) come to Casablanca in search of letters of transit so they can fly to Lisbon and eventually to America. Meanwhile, Richard Blaine the owner of the popular “Rick’s Café Américain” and the man who Ilsa had an affair with the previous year, has acquired the valuable letters of transit. Victor and Ilsa learn that the man, Ugate, who was supposed to sell them the letters of transit, has been arrested and killed and the letters are now in the possession of Rick Blaine. Ilsa is torn between the love she has for her husband and the love she has for Rick and tries to convince Rick to stay in
October 10, 2011
Casablanca Movie Review
Grade 9 drama A
The movie watched from September 26th to the 28th in Mr. Sheridan’s class was Casablanca. It was produced by Hal .B. Wallis, directed by Michael Curtiz with music done by Max Steiner. It is based on a play written by Murray Burnett and Joan Allison called “Everybody comes to Rick’s”, a contract was signed by the original writers, giving Warner Bros. complete ownership of the play. Warner Bros. then hired Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch to write the screenplay. The stars hired for the film were Humphrey Bogart who played Richard (Rick) Blain, Ingrid Bergman who played Ilsa Lund, Paul Henreid who played Victor Laszlow, Claude Rains who played Captain Lois Renaud, Conrad Veidt playing the role of Admiral Strasser, Sydney Greenstreet who played the role of Mr.Ferarri, Peter Lorre who played Ugate, Leonid Kinsky who played Sascha, Madeleine LeBeau who played the role of Yvonne and Dooley Wilson, playing the role of Sam. Casablanca has two setting throughout the movie. The first is in the continent of Africa, the country of Morocco, in the city of Casablanca in 1943. The second is a flashback that takes place a year earlier in 1942 in Paris, France. Victor Laslow, an anti-Nazi who has recently escaped from a concentration camp and his wife, the beautiful Ilsa Lund (or Laslow) come to Casablanca in search of letters of transit so they can fly to Lisbon and eventually to America. Meanwhile, Richard Blaine the owner of the popular “Rick’s Café Américain” and the man who Ilsa had an affair with the previous year, has acquired the valuable letters of transit. Victor and Ilsa learn that the man, Ugate, who was supposed to sell them the letters of transit, has been arrested and killed and the letters are now in the possession of Rick Blaine. Ilsa is torn between the love she has for her husband and the love she has for Rick and tries to convince Rick to stay in