A 1942 American romantic drama set in wartime Morocco, where a jaded American expatriate must choose between love and the anti-Nazi resistance.
Production
Warner Bros. shot the film at its Burbank studio in mid-1942, drawing on an unproduced play called Everybody Comes to Rick’s. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman headlined a cast that included many European refugees playing refugees on screen.
Reception
The film opened in November 1942 to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa. It performed strongly at the box office and swept three Oscars, including Best Picture, the following year.
Legacy
Lines such as “Here’s looking at you, kid” and “We’ll always have Paris” entered popular speech. The film is frequently cited as the most quoted in American cinema and as a model for Hollywood narrative economy.
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