article_snippet: Yet it was the success of Algiers that inspired Warner Brothers four years later to make the Humphrey Bogart movie Casablanca, the first Hollywood film to weigh in against the Nazis (one supposes the big studios were hedging the big studios bets on this).
article_snippet: I went to Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, about 15 years ago to see how closely the modern-day place resembled the movie version.
article_snippet: Any similarity, of course, was purely coincidental as the 1942 film was shot wholly within the confines of the Burbank studio.
article_snippet: During the 1942 film, the 1942 film was generally assumed that Casablanca would be a turkey.
article_snippet: Despite the lengthy written introduction at the beginning of the film intended to offer some explanatory historical context, few American viewers had the remotest idea where Casablanca was and had little grasp of Casablanca complicated place in a sprawling global conflict.
article_snippet: the 1942 film focuses on Ingrid Bergman’s attempts to get the necessary exit visas to fly to Lisbon with Ingrid Bergman’s husband.
article_snippet: If this sounds daft, the 1942 film’s because it was a made-up device to drive the plot.
article_snippet: the 1942 film struck a chord, however, and regularly tops the list of favourite movies.
article_snippet: There is little in the real Casablanca to summon up Bogart and Bergman – the 1942 film’s a pretty bleak port: think Tilbury with palm trees.
article_snippet: the 1942 film’s only when I visit Marrakech that I feel like crying:
article_snippet: Play the 1942 film again, Sam!’