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...Casablanca (at the Brattle Theater through Saturday). The Academy Award-winning masterpiece that many cinema historians rank in the top three or four movies of all time...
...span the gulf between the U.S. and much of the world, fair planners gear their displays to the needs and moods of the host country. This spring at the Casablanca fair, the U.S. emphasized American methods for improving farm output, one of Morocco's toughest problems. At the fair in Tokyo, capital of a country acutely sensitive to the promise of nuclear energy, the U.S. concentrated on showing how reactors can be used in industry...
...Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is still marvelous, at the Brattle. The Light Brigade arrives Sunday. Lust for Life lives up to its title at the UT. Through Saturday. In Town, The Bachelor Party is realism, if you like that sort of stuff. At the Kenmore, shows at 6:24 p.m., 8:12 p.m., and 10 p.m. Around the World in 80 Days is Michael Todd's. The seats are reserved and the Saxon...
...white dinner jacket, speaks with a faint lisp, and drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
...they must also bring off some pretty shoddy writing: "kiss me Richard; kiss me as if it were the last time." The film is raised to the level of superlative, escapism entertainment because fine acting gives an indifferent story meaning beyond its worth; there are no second rate performances. Casablanca is an artificial world, where people who are not people are ideal though heroes, or murderers, or females, all leading dreams-of-glory existences: but the artificial world and the ideal characters are fascinating, absorbing and alive; so escape becomes exciting, satisfying reality...