Yvonne’s front was, indeed, quite nice.
And thank God, too! I’d hate to see that gorgeous head of hair chopped off because she was a collaboratrice.
Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz - classic films. Never seen any of them.
Are you seriously faulting Marlowe for being a bad actor? Of course he was over-the-top; he’s a private dick, not a thespian.
As for Tracy: The Old Man and the Sea. Heck, he’s even a ham in Captains Courageous (though the film is terrific)
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Let us not forget that house sized computer film with Katherine Hepburn.
Not to nitpick but in 1940 Bogart was still doing supporting roles in A-movies (often as the heavy) and leads in B-movies. His breakout role as an A-list leading man didn’t happen until 1941’s High Sierra. The later success of The Maltese Falcon cemented his status as a box office draw.
Any particular reason? I urge you to see all four, but pace yourself. You really won’t regret it.
Desk Set. It’s my favorite, so don’t say anything bad about it.
Re: the signs in Casablanca being in English - isn’t there a seen early on with a street sign in Arabic, or French or something, and it melts into English? I think from then on the audience is supposed to accept signs in English as part of the background, just not as exotic.
Roddy
IMO, it’s Claude Raines who put this movie over the top. He is a male “hooker with a heart of gold”.
I’m working on making an argument that Pretty Woman is a remake of Casablanca. 
I don’t think there’s any modern film like Casablanca. I just tried to find any statements online about the similarity of a modern film to Casablanca. I’ll ignore Play It Again, Sam, which is actually one of my favorite films, because it’s meant as a deliberate homage to Casablanca. I’ll ignore several other films which were deliberate semi-remakes of it but which aren’t particularly good. One suggestion I found is that the 2000 movie In the Mood for Love is similar to Casablanca. Like Pretty Woman, it’s got a few elements of Casablanca, but it’s not really that similar. There’s also apparently some elements of Casablanca in the 1997 film Chinese Box, although I haven’t seen that film.
The Cheap Detective.
I remember my classmates in jr high school (middle school for you youngins) decades ago, raving about this film.
I had a chance to see it on a flight to London, and was awestruck.
Romance. Honor. Love. Gambling. Nazis. Fights. Music.
Seriously, what more could you ask for?
Perhaps Sean Connery in Bogey’s role? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
No, not that we saw. There are some signs in French, but more in English.
Mainly because I don’t watch TV. My monthly average is well under half an hour…
FWIW, my list of “must-see classics” would be quite different. I’d almost rather watch Casablanca four times than watch all four that you mention. 
Well that’s great, because now that we’re in the 1980s you don’t need to rely on TV for your classic movies!
There are these newfangled things called DVDs, some of which have entire movies on them… and you can watch them for as long as you want!
I’ve heard tell that if you have one of those home computers, you may be able to have movies “downloaded” to you.
I bet you need a whole stack of floppies for that.
Would that work with my IBM punchcards?