# 75th Anniversary of the release of Casablanca **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866 "2017-11-27T12:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/1 "2017-11-27T12:38:03Z")
In a mostly unheralded milestone, yesterday (Nov. 26 2017) marked the 75th anniversary of the release of **Casablanca**. Just thought I’d note that. > **[Casablanca (1942) - Release info - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/releaseinfo/)** > > Casablanca (1942) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... > **[Celebrating 75 years of "Casablanca"](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscars-look-back-casablanca-75th-anniversary/)** > > The classic film has been screened more times in theaters and on television than any movie in history ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/2 "2017-11-28T03:15:08Z")
I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/3 "2017-11-28T03:20:43Z")
I’m shocked that there is gambling in this establishment ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/4 "2017-11-28T03:27:59Z")
If you’re a fan and haven’t seen it lately, make sure to check out the recently restored version. The Blu-ray looks amazing. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/5 "2017-11-28T03:33:44Z")
Help me Reeek! Hide me Reeeek! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/6 "2017-11-28T03:57:18Z")
Fathom was showing it this month in theaters I’m not sure of the dates ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/7 "2017-11-28T04:02:53Z")
I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t seen it ever. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/8 "2017-11-28T04:31:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Fathom was showing it this month in theaters I’m not sure of the dates Damn, I [missed](https://www.fathomevents.com/events/casablanca) it. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/9 "2017-11-28T07:24:38Z")
Wait for 00:56–01:20: > **[The Unruly Hare -Bugs Bunny | SuperCartoons](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/902/bugs-bunny-the-unruly-hare.html)** > > The Unruly Hare -Bugs Bunny:Elmer Fudd is a dim-witted surveyor trying to lay out a new railroad track. When his work disturbs Bugs Bunny, he finds himself overwhelmed by the wascally wabbit's antics. Bugs' attempts to befuddle Fudd result in an... How many stars can you identify in **this one**? This was long before my time too, but I've seen \*\*lots \*\*of old movies! :cool: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/10 "2017-11-28T07:39:34Z")
**NB:** According to IMDB, the book Bugs is reading is titled _ **Hare Raising Tales** _. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/11 "2017-11-28T07:48:42Z")
We have a local, old theater (1912) The Crest, that often plays old movies. I saw _Casablanca_ there earlier this summer with some friends. Second time I got to see it on the big screen, as they showed it about 20 years ago, too. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/12 "2017-11-28T08:27:32Z")
The only time I’ve seen it on the big screen was the winter of '89–'90 in Moscow, at the Rossiya cinema on Pushkin Square (at the time the world’s largest). The B&W images were simply stunning! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/13 "2017-11-28T08:34:16Z")
Major Strasser’s been shot. Round up the usual suspects. (and make sure there is no farting in the lineup) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/14 "2017-11-28T13:02:28Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t seen it ever. That was my status when I entered college. I can’t recall it ever being on TV, although doubtless it was, but I never noticed or cared. I’d heard the phrase “Play it again, Sam”, but had no idea of its context (and even knew that it was the title of a Woody Allen play and movie). Then my freshman roommate stuck a copy of that famous scene with Claude Rains and Bogart out on that wet\* airport runway at night, and I had to ask him what it was. Casablanca is popular on college campuses – I saw it countless times over the next couple of years (and saw and read “Play it Again, Sam”. I almost saw the Marx Brothers’ “A Night in Casablanca”, too, the third film in a “Night in Casablanca” mini film fest, but they pulled it at the last minute because the powers that be thought it wasn’t a good enough film). So I finally got to learn all the catchphrases and where they came from. It’s a satisfying and entertaining film. You wouldn’t think that it would be, from all the hands on it and the way it caromed from place to place and got rewritten. I think Hollywood likes to hold it up as an example of what the studio system could do. _Frankenstein_ and _The Wizard of Oz_ had similarly twisted histories, but I think that these films came out decently in spite of Hollywood’s way of doing business, rather than because of it. Worth a watch. - Rick: “I came to Casablanca for the waters” Captain Renault" Waters? What waters? Casablanca’s in a desert." Rick: “I was misinformed.” Just why IS that runway covered in pools of water out in the middle of a desert? I never really thought about that before. Evidently atmospheric imagery trumps reality. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/15 "2017-11-28T13:06:33Z")
Well said, **CalMeacham**. It’s just a delight. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all of the world, and she walks into _mine_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/16 "2017-11-28T14:42:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Just why IS that runway covered in pools of water out in the middle of a desert? I never really thought about that before. Evidently atmospheric imagery trumps reality. Uhhh … because Casablanca’s on NW Africa’s Atlantic coast? :dubious: 😕 [https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/22/167122-004-84FA7318.jpg](https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/22/167122-004-84FA7318.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/17 "2017-11-28T15:17:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Just why IS that runway covered in pools of water out in the middle of a desert? I never really thought about that before. Evidently atmospheric imagery trumps reality. Always. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/18 "2017-11-28T15:17:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Uhhh … because Casablanca’s on NW Africa’s Atlantic coast? :dubious: 😕 > > [https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/22/167122-004-84FA7318.jpg](https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/22/167122-004-84FA7318.jpg) Yeah, but, as they emphasize several times in the film, it’s still in the desert. You wouldn’t think you’d have fog and standing pools of water as a regular thing there. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/19 "2017-11-28T16:28:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Just why IS that runway covered in pools of water out in the middle of a desert? I never really thought about that before. Evidently atmospheric imagery trumps reality. Eh, it was a plywood plane anyway… I knew 70% of the dialog and had seen countless parodies before I ever saw the film. What a shock to find the film was so derivative! I’m glad Magnum PI went away from Rick pattering himself after Rick in Casablanca, even having his own club named Cafe Americana, in production episodes. That would have got old fast. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866/20 "2017-11-28T16:47:29Z")
Here’s looking at _you,_ kid. The plane was half scale, with a midget “ground crew”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/75th-anniversary-of-the-release-of-casablanca/802866.md?page=2)