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Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; TIME...
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; TIME...
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; Time...
...Conrad Veidt, looking more & more like a scarred wolfhound, has a few moments as a Nazi captain. Peter Lorre, as a petty passport racketeer, is knocked out of the show after 20 minutes. Sydney Greenstreet briefly represents the emigre black bourse. Oldtimer S. Z. Sakall (who should consider wearing his face in a brassiere) steals scene after scene as usual, merely by wobbling his jowls. Claude Rains is a bush-league Laval...
Humphrey Bogart, as tough and suave as ever, plays the part of a Broadway gambler who stumbles into a Fifth-Column outfit, picks up a political consciousness and a good-looking refugee while he's at it, and winds up by doing his bit for national defense. Conrad Veidt is adequately sinister as the Nazi leader, but it's Peter Lorre who rings the bell again as the screen's number one menace. Without saying much, he manages to glide on and off the scene with a minimum of effort and a maximum of good solid horror...