Casablanca B
by Movie Poster Prints
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Casablanca B
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Movie Poster Prints
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Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the unpublished stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuresClaude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
When the award for Best Picture was announced producer Hal B. Wallis got up to accept, only to find Jack Warner had rushed onstage to take the trophy. Wallis later recalled, "I had no alternative but to sit down again, humiliated and furious. ... Almost forty years later, I still haven't recovered from the shock. This incident would lead Wallis to leave Warner Bros. that April
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January 25th, 2013
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Bedros Awak
Love this classic movie poster, never gets old..V,F)
Movie Poster Prints replied:
Thank you Bedros - So glad you like this poster - I appreciate your kind words, vote and favorite - Dave