Casablanca - Wallis, Hal B. (Warner Bross, 1943)
Academy Award Winner ''Best Picture 1943''
Rick Blaine, an American expatriate with a shady past, runs the very polular night-spot, Rick's cafe in Casablanca, French Morocco. Everybody comes to Rick's - gumblers, smugglers, spies, counter spies, refugees, and more. Rick and his best friend Sam, the club's piano player, keep out of policies and ingnore the war. Rick's friend Captain Reault, perfect of the Vichy police, agrees with Rick. But the war won't leave him alone. Ugarte asks Rick to hide two letters of transport that were stolen from a murdered Nazi officer. Rick wants no part of it, but has them when Ugarte is arrested. Rick hears Sam playing a song, which he asked Sam never to play. Ilsa Lund, Rick's true love, requested it. Rick thinks that she abandoned him in Paris when the Nazis invaded the city. Now she is the wife of Victor Laszlo, an underground leader who is the target of massive Nazi search.Suddenly Rick's letters of transport loom large.