Word: casablanca
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...very backward about U.S. news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden is very "sophisticated," that for Africa "primitive." In India news about the U.S. has increased 800%-meaning that now 10% of foreign news in India is American. No one knows whether this news has any propaganda...
...factors as well as the action "Casablanca" is recommended as of more than average entertainment value. It's a new idea, and some refreshing stars in good roles, and that spells ninety good minutes in any man's language...
...setting of "Casablanca" is a peculiarly American Cafe Americain in Casablanca before it became a meeting place for conferring diplomats. The dramatis personae are Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, heading a cast that does an able job of supporting. With international characters and situations of every variety, the picture cannot fall to attain a fair degree of interest...
...setting is a peculiarly American Cafe American in Casablanca, before it became a meeting place for conferring diplomats. The traffic in human beings that serves as the backdrop of the story makes for interest per sc. But when it is combined with the Gestapo pursuit of a Czech underground leader, whose wife is enamoured, Continental style, with an American style, last-time-I-saw Paris lover, the plot, as the saying goes, thickens...
Judged by the imposing dramatis personnae and the very timely name, Casablanca smells of a Hollywood business agent's attempt to capitalizes on the newspaper headlines. Actually it is one of the best pictures to come out of the west in some time...