The three best scenes from Casablanca.
Shocked! Shocked!
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In Honor of Bastille Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Wonderful film. It deserves its place among the greats, unlike – and I suspect I’ll get some pushback here – Citizen Kane, which always seems to be put on those lists because that’s what we’ve always done rather than because it is actually a great film.
The entire movie is an unbroken string of memorable quotes.
One scene after another, phrases that have entered the American vocabulary.
Great drama with an undercurrent of humor.
I came to Casablanca for the waters.
The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
I was misinformed.
Play it, Sam.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world. She walks into mine.
Here’s looking at you, kid.
Even the subplots are quite memorable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd2PK6OTDj0&t=278s
And now we get drunk and jaded Supergirl. Progression of the species. I guess. Or something.