Casablanca + The Big Sleep
Casablanca + The Big Sleep
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Humphrey Bogart Double - the iconic Casablanca and the thrilling film noir of The Big Sleep. Two great movies for only $17
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Here's looking at you, kid. Join us for a Monday Double featuring two of the best films of the golden age of Hollywood.
Casablanca
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.
Winner 1943 Academy Awards Outstanding Motion Picture
Winner 1943 Academy Awards Best Director, Michael Curtiz
Winner 1943 Academy Awards Best Screenplay
One of the AFI's most important films of all time, and making their 100 Years...100 Movies list in the #2 slot. As well as 100 Thrills, 100 Passions, 100 Songs, and 100 Movie Quotes.
"A peerless example of Hollywood studio moviemaking, director Michael Curtiz turning the Warner backlot into a gloriously romantic vision of WW2-era Morocco crammed with real-life European exiles and larger-than-life character actors" - Total Film
"The film still works beautifully: its complex propagandist subtexts and vision of a reluctantly martial America’s ‘stumbling’ morality still intrigue, just as Bogart’s cult reputation among younger viewers still obtains." - TimeOut London
"Seventy years on, this great romantic noir is still grippingly powerful: a movie made at a time when it was far from clear the Nazis were going to lose. " - The Guardian
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The Big Sleep
Directed by Howard Hawks and based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name. Humphrey Bogart stars as private detective Philip Marlowe. Hired by a wealthy family to solve a the complex case full of murder, blackmail--and what might be love. Also starring the sizzling Lauren Bacall as Vivian.
Akira Kurosawa cited The Big Sleep as one of his 100 favorite films.
Casablanca
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.
Winner 1943 Academy Awards Outstanding Motion Picture
Winner 1943 Academy Awards Best Director, Michael Curtiz
Winner 1943 Academy Awards Best Screenplay
One of the AFI's most important films of all time, and making their 100 Years...100 Movies list in the #2 slot. As well as 100 Thrills, 100 Passions, 100 Songs, and 100 Movie Quotes.
"A peerless example of Hollywood studio moviemaking, director Michael Curtiz turning the Warner backlot into a gloriously romantic vision of WW2-era Morocco crammed with real-life European exiles and larger-than-life character actors" - Total Film
"The film still works beautifully: its complex propagandist subtexts and vision of a reluctantly martial America’s ‘stumbling’ morality still intrigue, just as Bogart’s cult reputation among younger viewers still obtains." - TimeOut London
"Seventy years on, this great romantic noir is still grippingly powerful: a movie made at a time when it was far from clear the Nazis were going to lose. " - The Guardian
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The Big Sleep
Directed by Howard Hawks and based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name. Humphrey Bogart stars as private detective Philip Marlowe. Hired by a wealthy family to solve a the complex case full of murder, blackmail--and what might be love. Also starring the sizzling Lauren Bacall as Vivian.
Akira Kurosawa cited The Big Sleep as one of his 100 favorite films.
Rating:
PG
Runtime:
216 mins
Director:
John Huston
Actors:
Lauren Bacall,
Humphrey Bogart,
Ingrid Bergman,
Claude Rains,
Peter Lorre,
Mary Astor,
Gladys George
Session Times
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