You must remember this: ‘Casablanca’ returns
The miracle of “Casablanca” is that it was completed at all, given its famously torturous history that has made for fascinating articles and books. The final product – which Turner Classic Movies shows Tuesday, Dec. 6, as part of a tribute to composer Max Steiner – looks like a well-planned work rather than something that literally was made up as the filming went along .
The 1942 Oscar winner concerns the dangerously renewed romance of nightclub owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and his ex-love Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman); she wants his help in securing passage out of wartime Casablanca for herself and her resistance-leader husband Victor (Paul Henreid). Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet and (as piano-playing Sam) Dooley Wilson also appear.