Tag: #film history

• Casablanca turns 83

  November 26, 2025

  Film Appreciation, General, On my mind

  #Casablanca, #Claude Raines, #Conrad Veidt, #film history, #Humphrey Bogart, #Ingrid Bergman, #MostLovedFilms, film, movies

  Eighty-three years ago today, the film Casablanca opened. The script had been plucked from the slush pile and greenlit the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The entire film was shot on a tight budget, on backlot locations quickly modified with a Moorish theme. It had name stars in Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman,…