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Casablanca

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A 1942 American wartime romantic drama directed by Michael Curtiz, set in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, where a cynical nightclub owner must choose between his own safety and helping his former lover and her resistance-leader husband escape the Nazis. Its dialogue, including 'Here's looking at you, kid' and 'We'll always have Paris,' remains among the most quoted in film history.

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1942 1
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35mm black-and-white film 1
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Film 1
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    A 1942 American wartime romantic drama directed by Michael Curtiz, set in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, where a cynical nightclub owner must choose between his own safety and helping his former lover and her resistance-leader husband escape the Nazis.
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