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Casablanca
Black-and-white film screenshot with the title of the film in fancy font. Below it is the text "A Warner Bros. – First National Picture". In the background is a crowded nightclub filled with many people.
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Screenplay by
Based on
Everybody Comes to Rick's
by
Produced byHal B. Wallis
Starring
CinematographyArthur Edeson
Edited byOwen Marks
Music byMax Steiner
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • November 26, 1942 (1942-11-26) (Hollywood Theatre)
  • January 23, 1943 (1943-01-23) (United States)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$878,000
Box office$3.7

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) or helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance to Nazi occupation leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against Nazi Germany. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.

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