Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz directed this wartime romance set in a Moroccan city crowded with refugees hunting for a way out. Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine, an American nightclub owner who insists he sticks his neck out for nobody, until Ingrid Bergman walks back into his life alongside a resistance leader husband played by Paul Henreid. Claude Rains is the amiable police captain who bends whichever way the wind blows. A film about whether neutrality is a position anyone can actually hold.