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The winner of our romance poll!

A really swell movie, and I looked up what they said in "When Harry Met Sally" and they were talking about Casablanca!

It's very interesting how the romance aspect doesn't show up until later than usual. We set everything up at the beginning, then eventually Ilsa walks in and we start diving into the romance.

Really quite neat! There are SO many quotes that I've heard of before, I love it 🤩

1940 movies are so special because they're just so different from what I'm used to. I love the time capsules

For this style of reaction, you need your own copy to watch the movie.  You can set picture in picture by right clicking twice on the video and selecting "Picture in picture". The right clicking twice is a bit tricky, because you have to right click, then move your cursor so it's not on the menu, then right click again

- Vero 🥰

Thank you so much everyone for your support, you are amazing!!

I couldn't do this without you <3

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FULL LENGTH REACTION | Casablanca (1942) [2025]

Reminder that you need your own copy of the movie to watch along with me since this is solely my reaction. The video is there so you can have an idea when the scene changes in case you need to sync up, but it is HEAVILY blurred so I don't have any copyright issues. Enjoy!!

Comments

thebeefmaster

So glad you are checking out the classic B&W era. There is an amazing B&W world to be discovered and enjoyed. The use of light and shadow can be an incredible aspect of film making. "Here's looking at you kid."

Verowak

I'm really excited to check black and white movies out!! I see where Spielberg gets his influence for using shadows so much!! lol

James Hadden

So...many...famous...quotes!!! When I saw this movie for the first time a few years ago, just like you I was expecting a couple, but was blown away by how many there were. I've seen it a few times now, but I still get emotional when they are belting out La Marseillaise (which as an Englishman feels a bit weird lol). I actually like seeing how dramatic deaths were acted out back then, they should be dramatic, someone just died :-) Considering what you read about how filming started before the script was finished, I think the love triangle is really nicely balanced, no-one is the bad guy. I've seen precious few black and white movies so will be happy to check out more if and when you get to them, older movies have such style.

Verowak

I absolutely love hearing where famous quotes came from!! I agree, the love triangle is nicely balanced, and it all makes sense, really. It's very realistic, and the ending they chose to do is also very nice. I feel like it could be fun to make a short film à-la 1940s. The dramatic deaths, the amazing backgrounds when driving, and the speech pattern too :D

AuntVes

Thanks, Vero! ❤️‍🩹 Since you're acquainted with Mr. Bogart, now, check him out in THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) with Katharine Hepburn... or in SABRINA (1954) with Audrey Hepburn. The two Hepburns aren't related. 😏

Scott Howard

I can't believe all the character actors that are in this movie that you will find woven throughout so many movies in the 40s and 50s. But as much as I like this movie, for me, real vintage Bogart is The African Queen and The Big Sleep. Of course you really have to watch The Caine Mutiney. That was probably Bogeys best acting.

Verowak

I guess Hepburn was a common last name if they weren't related! I always thought they were related 😅

Verowak

I'm hearing so many movies for the first time every time I watch a black and white movie, it's exciting!! I just made a note to have a Humphrey Bogart poll at some point :D

AuntVes

I thought Thelma Ritter was related to John Ritter 'til yesterday (and I've been lovin' both for most of my 56 years)! 🤣 A.I. Google results say they're related and even give a false date of death for Thelma... but official biographies/sources set the record straight.

Lana Gorgeous

Oh another bit a trivia, some of the cast had fled Nazi Occupied Germany , France and other occupied locations in Europe and if they would have been caught they would have been killed. The actor who played Yvonne, actress Madeleine Lebeau, who played the spurned young lover of Rick in the beginning of the movie fled the Nazi's when she was 18 and she was 19 years old in the movie Casablanca. In the scene where Victor Laszlo was leading the singing of the French National Anthem La Marseillaise, if you noticed Yvonne actress Madeleine Lebeau, was crying as were some of the others. Those tears were real not acting as they thought about their country France being occupied by the Nazi's and the people they knew who were killed or placed in concentration camps. So if you watch that scene again in the movie examine it very closely and you'll see the intensity.