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Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

Max Hastings

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Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen...

Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense

Pierre Belanger and Alexander Arroyo

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This book is not about war, nor is it a history of war. Avoiding the shock and awe of wartime...

Best Boots and Battledress

Kit White

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In Best Boots and Battledress, we are given the journey of a young man entering the national...

Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944]

David Frey

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Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into...

A Country Road, A Tree

Jo Baker

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From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a remarkable imagining of Samuel Beckett’s wartime...

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'Allo 'Allo

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'Allo 'Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Casablanca (1942) in Movies

Mar 12, 2018 (Updated Mar 12, 2018)

Casablanca (1942)

1942 | Drama, Romance, War

8.5

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Enduringly popular wartime romantic drama is also sparklingly quotable and (not often mentioned) works as an allegory about the Second World War - Western Europe (Henreid and Bergman) would really like the help of America (Bogart) to escape from the clutches of Nazi Germany (Veidt); France (Rains) is in two minds about the whole thing.

Despite the fact this is regularly studied as an example of a perfectly-constructed story, it's probably best not to look too closely at some elements of the plot. The performances and dialogue are so winning that you give the movie a pass on this anyway. Everyone has their favourite Casablanca moment, whether it's one of the romantic bits, one of the jokes, a song, or whatever. Beyond simply being made with skill and sincerity, it's quite hard to determine what makes this film quite so special, but the fact remains that it is deservedly a legend.