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...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...
...climax of Casablanca concerns the efforts of Laszlo and his wife to leave Morocco. Rick has two letters of transit which would make that easy. Reluctant to help, Mr. Bogart at last does the manly thing and Mr. Rains saves him from the consequences. Nothing short of an invasion could add much to Casablanca...
...makes the picture. Ladd isn't as tough as he was in "This Gun For Hire." He kicks and bruises where he once shot and killed. Occasional smiles and leers light up his former ominous dead-pan. But these little human touches only accent a character more sinister than Bogart at his best...
...Huston's direction integrates the best in the techniques of Hitchcock and Welles to produce a picture which never falters. Even in the role of a government agent Humphrey Bogart loses none of his suave rapacity, and his characterization of an Army sleuth hoists the picture over many implausible bits of plot. With Nomura's grin still pacifying Washington, Bogart tracks Jap saboteurs in a wild chase from Canada to Panama. Ships, lonely docks, subway pursuits, and airplanes are all standard paraphenalia to this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary...
...Humphrey Bogart is his usual hard-as-nails self, slapping people around, making strange with his lips, driving automobiles without any consideration for gas or rubber, and in the end dying the death that the Hays Office says all murderers, regardless of race or creed, must die. In spite of the fact that you can tell more or less what's going to happen after the first few minutes, you'll probably be sitting on the edge of your seat till it does happen. No matter how many times you've seen them before, jail breaks and murders and holdups...