The Outsiders? Old Yeller? Rudy?
I don’t know what it would have been called, but it was enough to keep Rick from going back to the U.S.
I consider it a plot element that makes the Nazis less suspicious of Rick helping the resistance. It also makes the situation less black-and-white than things became after war was declared. People forget how much oppostion there was in the U.S. to going to war, prior to Pearl Harbor.
Another logic gap is the letters of transit bearing DeGaulle’s signature, which woud have meant nothing to the Vichy government.
Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
Are my two candidates. They established the Bond franchise. Both films have high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.
Men and Women usually like the best Bond films. They’re very exciting and not too violent when compared to todays action films.
I’d nom 2001, but in any thread about it, here or elsewhere, you invariably get people who claim it is too slow, characters not very compelling, plot confusing, etc.
There are also always those who simply don’t “get” the kind of broad humor represented by Princess Bride, Monty Python’s efforts, or Dr. Strangelove.
Doesn’t Bond rape the gay out of a lesbian in that movie? I find James Bond childish, I’m more a George Smiley kind of guy.
Violation of the Neutrality Acts.
If you listen very carefully, you’ll hear him say “Weygand”, rather than “de Gaulle”. Maxime Weygand was a French general who served on Foch’s staff in WWI, and was a civil officer in the government of French North Africa at the time. It’s hidden a bit because they have the same vowel sounds, because of Peter Lorre’s accent, and because we tend to hear things that are familiar rather than things that are not, and the French WWII general that most people in America have heard of is Charles de Gaulle.
That makes sense…thanks!
Just a couple of months ago, someone nominated Rudy in a thread about the worst sports movie.
When Harry Met Sally
Fantasia
The Last Picture Show
Psycho
A Christmas Story
At one point in the film Louis says to Rick, “Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator’s wife? I’d like to think that you killed a man”. It appears from that scene that Rick committed a crime in the U.S. that means that he would be arrested for it if he returns. It doesn’t appear to me that he would be arrested for what he did with the Spanish civil war rebels or with Haile Selassie’s forces in Ethiopia.
Exactly the opposite: he was fighting on the sides that the Nazis opposed. Germany supported Franco, not the rebels. And Mussolini had been fighting Italy since 1935, forcing Emperor Haile Selassie to flee in 1936. I think most Americans would have been sympathetic to the rebels and to Selassie.
IMHO, Rick’s history of gun running is intended to show us that he is not amoral mercenary, but has principles. He chose those two sides, even though “the other side would have paid much better.”
Exactly. His gun running has nothing to do with why he can’t go back to the U.S.
Franco was the rebel in the Spanish civil war and was supported by Nazi Germany. Rick was probably running guns to the Republicans, an assortment of loyalists to the government and supported by the USSR.
What I meant was that Rick’s inability to go home makes him less likely to side with the U.S. if/when war breaks out.
I had not considered the possibility that he had committed other crimes. As noted above, he was portrayed as a moral, idealistic person (“a sentimentalist” in Renault’s words). Are there any hints (Renault’s joshing about church funds and a Senator’s wife aside)?
Blade Runner. original directors cut.
Out of Africa
Chariots of Fire
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mao’s Last Dancer
Three of those are based on true stories which I find the most satisfying.
Best Years haunts me. So many awards. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Awards - IMDb yet seems few know it. 
Well, he certainly comes across as a jerk in one scene. A woman he has slept with asks why he didn’t sleep with her the previous night. She wants to know who he has been sleeping with. He says that he doesn’t care that he’s cheated with another woman. She wants to know if she will be sleeping with him that night. He says he doesn’t make any plans for that night because he doesn’t care if she feels abandoned.
He was trying to stay sober, after having his heart broken in Paris, presumably after he’d left the U.S.
I thought Rick went to Casablanca for the waters.
He was mistaken. 
Nitpick: misinformed.
I was discussing that movie with someone and discovered that Harold Russell is buried in a town I visit rather often. I searched the small town cemetery to find his grave and read up on him a bit. Sounds like an interesting guy.