The History of Rick's Life

The movie is also based on an unproduced screenplay, a play that was written in 1941 before the US entered the war. The political aspects of it are really fascinating. It feels like a place and you know, Casablanca or wherever where a lot of different people are. Most of the cast is not American,. Bogart exists as this kind of this symbol of America at a turning point in many ways.

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