Two of the all-time classic movies will return to the big screen in Kingscliff this week when Cinemax Arthouse Cinema holds a Bogart weekend.
If you’ve never seen the beautiful classic Casablanca or the amazing battle of wills that is African Queen on the big screen then here’s your chance.
Deborah and Stephen at Cinemax will screen Casablanca on Friday at 10am and then back up with the wonderful African Queen on Sunday morning.
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.
Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue.
He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
The African Queen is a 1951 adventure drama film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester.
The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel[2] and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel.
It stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
Casablanca trivia: Rick’s toast to Ilsa, “Here’s looking at you, kid”, used several times, is not in the draft screenplays, but has been attributed to something Bogart said to Bergman as he taught her poker between takes.[122] It was voted the 5th most memorable line in cinema in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes by the American Film Institute.[123]
Six lines from Casablanca appeared in the AFI list, the most of any film (Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz tied for second with three apiece). The other five are:
n”Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” – 20th
n”Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By'” – 28th
n”Round up the usual suspects” – 32nd
n”We’ll always have Paris” – 43rd
n”Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine” – 67th.
