A Tribute to Casablanca and Aljean Harmetz’s detailed production account Round Up the Usual Suspects. For most viewers, the scene plays out without any hint of how it was achieved.

Round up the unusual suspects. “ Casablanca” has turned 80, and the most esteemed of all Hollywood classics enters its octogenarian years with a new ultra-high-definition DVD release.

Casablanca is more than just a love story. It is a film about, and stocked with, the waves of refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during wartime.

Of all the classic Hollywood films, it's one of the best-known and most enduring — this week, Casablanca turns 75. Amazingly, the people involved thought it would be just another Hollywood flick ...

It isn’t just about refugees, of course. On the surface, Casablanca is a romantic melodrama with an exotic wartime backdrop. Its hero is Rick (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical and absurdly well ...

On Nov. 26, 1942, 'Casablanca' made its world premiere at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City.

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