Casablanca - 1942 | Starring Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart

Casablanca - 1942 | Starring Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart

Casablanca (Original Black & White Version) is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring HIngrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.

Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans.

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.

Some later colored versions have been made, but without the charm of the light and shadow juice of the original black and white work.