My 150 Favorite Movies - #108

Casablanca (1942)

A yardstick by which other romantic dramas are compared, Casablanca brought together Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt and Paul Henreid in a classic story of wartime intrigue, lost loves and upturned lives, eking out an existence on the margins of society.  Arguably, the most famous Hollywood screenplay ever, Casablanca is
chock full of quotable nuggets like:

• Round up the usual suspects
• Of all the gin joints, in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine
• Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship
• Play it, Sam
• We'll always have Paris
• Here's looking at you, kid

As time goes by....this movie just keeps getting better and better.