"had turned down the lead role. Studio records make clear that Wallis was committed to Bogart from the start. Another well-known story is that the actors did not know until the last day of shooting how the film was to end. The original play (set entirely in the cafe) ended with Rick sending Ilsa and Laszlo to the airport. During scriptwriting, the possibility was discussed of Laszlo being killed in Casablanca, allowing Rick and Ilsa to leave together, but as Casey Robinson wrote to Hal Wallis before filming began, the ending of the film ""set up for a swell twist"
"we have $30,000 worth of furnishings here. Then we have an exterior set on the back lot of a Midwestern town"". The three top-billed roles in the 1942 film are played by Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo. In the series, the last name of Rick, portrayed by Charles McGraw, is Jason, while Ilsa and Victor do not appear as characters. The debut episode, ""Who Holds Tomorrow?"", showcases single-installment guest star Anita Ekberg playing a version of Ilsa, named Trina, but the storyline's reminiscence of Rick and Trina's past relationship"
"rubber monopoly. ""Sensationsprozeß Casilla"" (1939) was about a child abduction. With ""Kongo-Express"" (also in 1939) Borsody again shot an adventure film in a tropical setting in an attempt to capitalise on the success of ""Kautschuk"". Willy Birgel, Marianne Hoppe and René Deltgen starred. Once World War II began, light cheerful escapist films were much in demand, and von Borsody was cinematographer for the romantic musical drama ""Wunschkonzert"" (""Request Concert""), one of the most successful films of the entire Nazi period. Ilse Werner plays a young Berliner, who patiently and trustingly awaits the return of the man to whom she is"
"by the local police under the command of Captain Louis Renault, the unabashedly corrupt Vichy prefect of police. Ugarte dies in custody without revealing that he entrusted the letters to Rick. Then the reason for Rick's bitterness—former lover Ilsa Lund—enters his establishment. Spotting Rick's friend and house pianist, Sam, Ilsa asks him to play ""As Time Goes By."" Rick storms over, furious that Sam disobeyed his order never to perform that song, and is stunned to see Ilsa. She is accompanied by her husband, Victor Laszlo, a renowned fugitive Czech Resistance leader. They need the letters to escape to America"
"a pile of broken masonry. Knocked unconscious for 24 hours, he was laid up in the hospital for weeks with multiple fractures and lacerations. Hotel Imperial (1939 film) Hotel Imperial is a 1939 American dramatic film directed by Robert Florey. It stars Isa Miranda and Ray Milland. The plot follows a 1917 play by the Hungarian writer Lajos Bíró: in the waning days of World War I, on the Russian-Austrian frontier, a young woman looking to avenge the suicide of her sister poses as a chambermaid in the Hotel Imperial. A Hungarian silent film was released in 1918, and an"
"Hotel Imperial (1939 film) Hotel Imperial is a 1939 American dramatic film directed by Robert Florey. It stars Isa Miranda and Ray Milland. The plot follows a 1917 play by the Hungarian writer Lajos Bíró: in the waning days of World War I, on the Russian-Austrian frontier, a young woman looking to avenge the suicide of her sister poses as a chambermaid in the Hotel Imperial. A Hungarian silent film was released in 1918, and an American version starring Pola Negri in 1927. The history of this production began in 1936, with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer in the lead"
"Tampico (film) Tampico was a 1944 drama/war film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Marc Lawrence, and Mona Maris. It was released by 20th Century Fox. Capt. Bart Manson (Edward G. Robinson) is the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, who rescues Katherine Hall (Lynn Bari) when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat. The couple marry, but Manson's ship is subsequently sunk as well. Hall becomes a prime suspect for involvement as she was carrying no identification when rescued. However Manson later discovers that his First Mate Fred"
"then patriotic fervor grips the crowd and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans. Strasser demands Renault close the club, which he does on the pretext of suddenly discovering there is gambling on the premises. Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café. When he refuses to give her the letters, she threatens him with a gun, but then confesses that she still loves him. She explains that when they met and fell in love in Paris in 1940, she believed her husband had been killed attempting to escape from a concentration camp. While preparing to flee with Rick from the"
"9 April 1940, the Danish army is alerted that the German army has crossed the border and Denmark is now at war with Europe's strongest army. In South Jutland, a Danish bicycle infantry company and a motorcycle platoon is ordered to hold off the German advance until reinforcements can arrive but are quickly overwhelmed by superior German forces. During the morning Second Lieutenant Sand (Pilou Asbæk) and his platoon of soldiers battle the Germans and then retreat to Haderslev. The film was directed by Roni Ezra and the screenplay was by Tobias Lindholm (who also wrote ""A Hijacking"", ""Borgen"" and"
"the Reich""). Other roles included Elske in ""Die Reise nach Tilsit"", the wholesome German wife whose husband betrays her with a Polish woman, but finally returns, repentant; Elisabeth in ""Immensee"", who marries a rich landowner to forget her unrequited love, and in the end decides to remain faithful even after she is widowed and her lover returns; Aels in ""Opfergang"", a woman who dies after her love affair; Luise Treskow in ""The Great King"", a miller's daughter who encourages Frederick the Great; and Maria in ""Kolberg"", a peasant girl who loyally supports the resistance to Napoleon and is the only"
"Conquest (1937 film) Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film which tells the story of the Polish Countess Marie Walewska, who becomes the mistress of Napoleon in order to influence his actions towards her homeland. It stars Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Leif Erickson, Dame May Whitty, George Zucco, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The movie was adapted by S. N. Behrman, Samuel Hoffenstein, Helen Jerome and Salka Viertel from the novel ""Pani Walewska"" by Waclaw Gasiorowski. It was directed by Clarence Brown and Gustav Machatý (uncredited). It was nominated for Best Actor in"
"imminent fall of the city to the German army, she learned Laszlo was alive and in hiding. She left Rick without explanation to nurse her sick husband. Rick's bitterness dissolves. He agrees to help, letting her believe she will stay with him when Laszlo leaves. When Laszlo unexpectedly shows up, having narrowly escaped a police raid on a Resistance meeting, Rick has waiter Carl spirit Ilsa away. Laszlo, aware of Rick's love for Ilsa, tries to persuade him to use the letters to take her to safety. When the police arrest Laszlo on a minor, trumped-up charge, Rick persuades Renault"
"included Die Gaukler (The Juggler, 1909), Die Königin der Nacht (The Queen of the Night, 1913), Die Unsterbliche Familie (The Immortal Family, 1913), Die Schöne Ehebrecherin (The Beautiful Adulteress, 1913), Die Meerjungfrau (The Mermaid, 1916), Baron Menelaus (1919), Mamselle Napoleon (1919), Die Fromme Helene (Pious Helene, 1921) Epsteins Witwe (Epstein's Widow, 1923), Der Ledige Schwiegersohn (The Unmarried Son-in-law, 1923), Frau Pick in Audienz (Mrs. Pick in Audience, 1924), Der Autowildling (1925), Hulda Pessl in Venedig (Hulda Pessl in Venice, 1926), Villa Adelheid (1926), Die Königin-Mutter (The Queen Mother, 1930), Der Jolly Joker (1932), Die Expresshochzeit (The Express Wedding), Der Held"
"the spring of 1959. The film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as Laszlo and Antonella Lualdi as Léda, two outsiders of a bourgeois family who experience different results when attempting to enter that family. Chabrol adapted the script with Paul Gégauff from a novel by Stanley Ellin, and the film is known for its oedipal sex triangle and murder scenario. The film was shot on location in Aix-en-Provence with cinematographer Henri Decaë and includes choppy, hand-held camera footage that is atypical of a Chabrol film despite being present in many of the New Wave films made at the same time. The film"
"officer husband. The film begins in 1997, with an 83-year-old Lilly (played by Inge Keller) taking up residence in a dilapidated flat that once served as an underground hideout. Brought to a retirement home, Lilly encounters her old maid Ilse (played by Johanna Wokalek in the 1940s scenes and by Kyra Mladeck in 1997 scenes), who was rounded up during 1945, and is already a tenant. In 1943 Felice, assuming a false last name and working as a journalist at a Nazi newspaper, meets Lilly via her friend and sometime lover Ilse, who works as Lilly's housekeeper. Instantly smitten, she"
"veers into spies, killers and Cold War intrigue. Billed fourth through seventh in the film's credits are Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, Conrad Veidt as Major Strasser, Sydney Greenstreet as Ferrari and Peter Lorre as Ugarte. The TV series retains the French police chief who bears a slightly different surname, Captain Renaud, played by Marcel Dalio (who was unbilled as Emil, Rick's gambling table croupier in 1942). The Nazi major, who had been fatally shot by Rick at the end of the film, was eliminated as a character, but Ferrari, the Fat Man with the powerful connections, was now"
"who was the widow of an RAF pilot. In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hašek (Michael Redgrave) of the Czechoslovak Army escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners of war, captured during the Fall of France, on a march to a prison camp. He is suspected of being a spy by his fellow soldiers because of a few small errors and his fluency in the German language. Captain Grayson (Guy Middleton) wants to lynch him forthwith, but Major Dalrymple"
"manufactures plastics, explosives and pharmaceutical compounds in his factories. His Belgian mistress, from the war, Madeleine Duclos (Hazel McBride) has died by this point, but in the years in between, the pair have married and produced a daughter called Ingrid (Alison Glennie). Kessler is part of an organisation called the ""Kameradenwerk"", which is formed of Nazis on the run, trying to evade capture for their war crimes and is led by a close friend of Kessler, Colonel Hans Ruckert (Ralph Michael) (who is based on Luftwaffe ace Colonel Hans Rudel). Ingrid is sleeping with her father's manservant, Franz Hoss (Nicholas"
"shot on location in Yugoslavia. The film is notable for using a significant number of authentic tanks and equipment. The movie opens with a German children's song, ""Hänschen klein"", mixed with black-and-white footage of prewar and war scenes. It then segues to colour and a German platoon raid on a Russian forward outpost led by Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn), during which his men capture a Russian boy-soldier (Slavko Štimac). An aristocratic Prussian officer, Captain von Stransky (Maximilian Schell), is posted as a new company commander in the Kuban bridgehead on the Eastern Front in 1943. Stransky proudly tells the"
"elements can be criticized, citing unrealistic special effects and the stiff character/portrayal of Laszlo. Critic Leonard Maltin considers ""Casablanca"" to be ""the best Hollywood movie of all time."" Rick, according to Rudy Behlmer, is ""not a hero ... not a bad guy"": he does what is necessary to get along with the authorities and ""sticks his neck out for nobody"". The other characters, in Behlmer's words, are ""not cut and dried"" and come into their goodness over the course of the film. Renault begins as a collaborator with the Nazis who extorts sexual favors from refugees and has Ugarte killed."
"captain that it would be too quick. Drummond and his friend Colonel Nielsen (John Barrymore) are instead given a series of riddles to solve. Bulldog Drummond Comes Back Bulldog Drummond Comes Back is a 1937 American film starring John Howard. Top-billed John Barrymore plays his friend Colonel Nielsen. The picture was directed by Louis King and the supporting cast includes series regular Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, and J. Carrol Naish. Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell), the girlfriend of Captain Drummond (John Howard), is kidnapped. Murderer Mikhail Valdin (J. Carroll Naish) and his sister, Erena Soldanis (Helen Freeman), seek revenge"
"produced. Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig. It is based on the 1812 novel ""The Swiss Family Robinson"" by Johann David Wyss and is the first feature-length film version of the story. In London in 1813, a Swiss father, William Robinson (Thomas Mitchell), wishes to escape the influence of the superficial profligacy of London on his family. His eldest son, Fritz (Tim Holt), is obsessed with Napoleon, whom he considers his hero. His middle son, Jack (Freddie Bartholomew), is a foolish dandy who"
"Adamson (Victor McLaglen) is in fact a German agent responsible for the sinking, and Hall is cleared of any culpability. Tampico (film) Tampico was a 1944 drama/war film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Marc Lawrence, and Mona Maris. It was released by 20th Century Fox. Capt. Bart Manson (Edward G. Robinson) is the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, who rescues Katherine Hall (Lynn Bari) when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat. The couple marry, but Manson's ship is subsequently sunk as well. Hall becomes a prime"
"The second series, briefly broadcast on NBC in April 1983, starred David Soul as Rick and was canceled after 3 weeks. There were several radio adaptations of the film. The two best-known were a thirty-minute adaptation on ""The Screen Guild Theater"" on April 26, 1943, starring Bogart, Bergman, and Henreid, and an hour-long version on the ""Lux Radio Theater"" on January 24, 1944, featuring Alan Ladd as Rick, Hedy Lamarr as Ilsa, and John Loder as Victor Laszlo. Two other thirty-minute adaptations were aired, one on ""Philip Morris Playhouse"" on September 3, 1943, and the other on ""Theater of Romance"""
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"simpler and less overtly Germanic Henreid. That year, Henreid became a citizen of the United States. His first film for the studio was ""Joan of Paris"", which came out in 1942 and was a big hit. At Warner Bros Henreid was cast in ""Now, Voyager"" (1942), playing the romantic lead opposite Bette Davis. Henreid's next role was as Victor Laszlo, a heroic anti-German resistance leader on the run, in ""Casablanca"" (1942) with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Warners tried to consolidate Henreid's new status by co-starring him with Ida Lupino in a romantic drama, ""In Our Time"" (1944) then putting"
"by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki (Olaf Lubaszenko) and Major Czesław Kusz (Tadeusz Huk), who will replace Keller as the commanding officer of the battalion on 1 March. The investigation comes at a sensitive time for Polish forces, as the Polish government tries to become a member of NATO. Keller maintains command of the unit, until his commission ends. Upon Czacki and Kusz's arrival, the unit receives a distress call from a downed Norwegian helicopter. Keller assembles his unit for a search and rescue mission to the downed chopper. However, his mission is rejected by the IFOR command. Despite"
"Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother and started her career as an actress in Swedish and German films in the 1930s. Her introduction to American audiences came with her"
"Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig. It is based on the 1812 novel ""The Swiss Family Robinson"" by Johann David Wyss and is the first feature-length film version of the story. In London in 1813, a Swiss father, William Robinson (Thomas Mitchell), wishes to escape the influence of the superficial profligacy of London on his family. His eldest son, Fritz (Tim Holt), is obsessed with Napoleon, whom he considers his hero. His middle son, Jack (Freddie Bartholomew), is a foolish dandy who cares"
"man should I love more...?' I said to her, 'I don't know ... play them both evenly.' You see we didn't have an ending, so we didn't know what was going to happen!"" In the final budget for the film, the Epsteins were paid $30,416, and Koch earned $4,200. In the play, the Ilsa character is an American named Lois Meredith; she does not meet Laszlo until after her relationship with Rick in Paris has ended. Rick is a lawyer. To make Rick's motivation more believable, Wallis, Curtiz, and the screenwriters decided to set the film before the attack on"
"Ranft's theatres. She was an actress of Sweden's national stage, the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten), between 1900–1912 and 1920-1938. She retired from the stage in 1938 because of stage fright and returned to film. She appeared in several supporting parts in Swedish films in the 1930s-1950s, for example in Ingmar Bergman's early 1948 film ""Music in Darkness"", in the thriller ""Ett brott"" (A Crime) (1940) and in ""Kejsarn av Portugallien"" (The Emperor of Portugallia) (1944), based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf, and in a pair of films by Hasse Ekman such as ""Kungliga patrasket"" (The Royal Rabble) (1945) and"
"Charles Laughton in ""Vessel of Wrath"" (1938). He had another strong part in ""Yellow Sands"" (1939) and had his first film lead in ""Dead Men are Dangerous"" (1939). He made another with Laughton, ""Jamaica Inn"" (1939), playing the romantic male lead, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In 1939, he played Horatio to Laurence Olivier's ""Hamlet"" at the Old Vic, in a production that also included Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave. Newton kept busy as a film actor, appearing in ""Poison Pen"" (1939) and ""Hell's Cargo"" (1939). Newton continued primarily as a supporting actor in films, appearing in ""Gaslight"" (1940), ""Busman's Honeymoon"""
"soldiers. The German escapees ready for their resettlement into the ""homeland"", while widowed Ludwig Launhardt asks for Marie's hand. At the end of the film the German trek crosses the border into the Reich. The conclusion shows an enormous picture of Hitler set up at the checkpoint. The main roles were as follows: Paula Wessely, ""Maria Thomas""; Peter Petersen, ""Dr. Thomas""; Attila Hörbiger, ""Ludwig Launhardt""; Carl Raddatz, ""Dr. Fritz Mutius""; and Hermann Erhardt, ""Karl Michalek"". Other parts were played by Otto Wernicke, ""Old Manz""; Ruth Hellberg, ""Martha Launhardt""; Elsa Wagner, ""Frau Schmid""; Eduard Köck, ""Herr Schmid""; Franz Pfaudler, ""Balthasar Manz"";"