of all the gin joints...

 

Speaking of old black-and-white movies, Casablanca is one.

When Christie Hefner says in an interview that Casablanca is her father's favorite movie, that does a lot for his legacy.

        We - get it.

That film is famous for memorable thoughts, and lines of dialogue:

"Here's looking at you, kid."

"We'll always have Paris."

"I am shocked - shocked! - to find that gambling is going on in here!"

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world - she walks into mine."

        I recently finished reading Casablanca:  behind the scenes, by Harlan Lebo.  

        The book ends with this paragraph:  

                --------------- But Casablanca remains much more than a motion picture milestone.  After fifty years, Hal Wallis's "toughest assignment" remains a beloved film for the ages, a movie that the boundaries of time or taste cannot change.  

        Casablanca is the product of another era in America, that brief moment as the 1930s ended and the 1940s began, before the world became a vastly different place.  

        Those years mark an age in America and in American cinema that will  never come again but will be remembered forever.  Hollywood has moved in new directions, and so have its motion pictures.  But we shall always have Casablanca.

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It's like the line in the film,

"We'll always have Paris."

... "We'll always have Casablanca."

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