| A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes at the height of the Great War is sophisticated and intriguing. Expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical nightclub owner in Casablanca, discovers that his ex-lover Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), who abandoned him years before, has arrived in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). With the Germans on Victor's trail, Ilsa has come to the club to beg Rick for the precious letters of transit that have come into his possession. The documents would allow Victor to escape Casablanca and continue the fight against Fascism |