EARLY ACCESS: Casablanca

I always liked Cindy Williams in the psychological horror film "The Killing Kind"(1973) starring John Savage and directed by cult filmmaker Curtis Harrington("Night Tide", "Whoever Slew Auntie Roo" and "What's the Matter with Helen")

Paul Johnson

Sorry, I just thought of a way to add to the already insane number of films suggested for Ashleigh to do. (Perhaps she will have to start doing a Wedmeday flick; after all, when she quit her day job. she did hint at starting up a third weekly movie. So these are all from the Library of Congress list of the National Film Registry: 2001 A Space Odyssey; The Adventures of Robin Hood; Anatomy of a Murder; Bambi; Ben-Hur; A Christmas Story; Coal Miner's Daughter; Cooll Hand Luke; Die Hard; Dr.;. Strangelove; A Face in the Crowd; Forbidden Planet; Gaslight; The General (black and white AND silent, but still great. BTW, I can just about guarantee you have seem the machine signified by the title); Hoosiers; House of Wax; In the Heat of the Night; King Kong; M*A*S*H; The Manchurian Candidate; North by Northwest; Oklahoma!; The Philadelphia Story; Planet of the Apes; Porgy and Bess; The Poducers; Rebecca; Raod to Morocco; SChindler's List; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Singin' in the Rain; Some Like it Hot; Spartacus; Stagecoach; Superman; The Ten Commandments (1956); Thje Thief of Bagdad; The Thing from Another World; Vertigo; West Side Story; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Winchester '73; The Wizard of Oz; The Women; Young Mr. Lincoln. --- I leftout Notorious, if you want to see Ingrid Bergman again.

Joseph Stevenson

Ashleigh likes Laverne -- How about seeing Shirley (Cindy Williams) in what is far and away her bast movie: American Graffiti, one of the greatest ensemble cast movies of all time. Made for $777,000, it grossed over $200,000,000Talk about combining favorites: Directed by George Lucas, featuring Willilams, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfus, and McKenzie Philips,

Joseph Stevenson

That's "Big" without the typo.

Joseph Stevenson

"Bigf" was the first film directed by a woman to gross over $100,000,000, says Wikipedia.

Joseph Stevenson

Ther Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, director + James Stewart The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcok + James Stewart) or Vertigo (Hitchcock + Stewart) Big (Penny Marshall, dir + Tom Hanks)

Joseph Stevenson

The Producers (Mel Brooks, writer/director + Gene Wilder).

Joseph Stevenson

Here are some movies that combine some of Ashleigh's favorite folks:

Joseph Stevenson

Please be a little careful about telling Ashleigh too much about the movies you recommend. (Reference "The African Queen" synopsis above. A good part of the char of this reaction video is that A.B. knows next to nothing about the movies she watches. Just like me when I was in the theater from 1948 to 1983. (That is, the earliest movie experience I remember was when I was five years old -- and the list runs through the original Star Wars eэra. I would add a recommendation for Humphrey B. in "The Caine Mutiny" in which he is the antagonist character rather than the hero, and does it brilliantly.

Joseph Stevenson

You’re speaking my language, Michelle.

Kate Cassidy

Maybe now that you have watched this, it is time for a screwball comedy and watch Bringing Up Baby

Michelle Denny

Treasure of the Sierra Madre will also be recognized for a line much misquoted by Bugs Bunny fans... Probably not for Ash, but “The Caine Mutiny” is also a Few Good Men-style military-courtroom drama, with Humphrey Bogart in the Jack Nicholson role--Definitely got a lot of folks looking it up during Trump’s impeachments, and you’ll see why from Bogart’s performance.

Eric Janssen

"The Maltese Falcon" (1941), which as well as Bogart has Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, is generally considered the first major film-noir. "Key Largo" (1948) is a film-noir which stars Bogart along with Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Humphrey Bogart), and the great Edward G. Robinson. It also has Lionel Barrymore, whom you'll recall from "It's a Wonderful Life." "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) is an adventure set in the Southwest and Mexico in the 1920s. There's a scene in it you'll recognize from a parody of it in "Blazing Saddles." "The African Queen" (1951) stars Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. Bogart won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role. Set in Africa during WWI, The African Queen is the name of the cargo boat Bogart's character skippers. (Just so you don't think it's some kind of King Solomon's Mines or Queen of Sheba story.)

Elliot Nesterman

Judging by your comments on here, you must be fun at parties...

Kenton Kruger

Classic! More Bogart films: The Maltese Falcon Key Largo Treasure of the Sierra Madre THE AFRICAN QUEEN

Kevin Townsend

Best Cary Grant movies IMHO are Charade, Father Goose, Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday, Arsenic and Old Lace, Operation Petticoat, To Catch a Thief( with Grace Kelly who would later become Princess Grace), and Notorious( with Ingrid Bergman). All of them are MUST Sees,

Wesley Eskildsen

That amazing ending was written the night before it was filmed.

Wesley Eskildsen

You should try a Cary Grant film. In the early 40’s, Cary Grant could get it, lol. Arsenic and Old Lace is very funny. Peter Lorre is in that too. Also, another Alfred Hitchcock movie you should see is Rear Window.

Brandie Woodward

Ingrid Bergman is on my short list of most beautiful women EVER.

Dan Helphrey

Seeing Ingrid Bergman reminded me of the movie Death Becomes Her. You definitely need to see it!

It was so nice to see you happy!

Anthony Emmel

When Michael Douglas was on a roll in the late 80’s/90’s, his smoldering perpetually-angry style had some critics calling him the “new Humphrey Bogart of his generation”. Close, but they’re not wrong.

Eric Janssen

I never realized 😲😲

Elisa H.

It's Mel Brooks birthday today!!! Couldn't watch High Anxiety or The Producers? Hahaha

Stevilicious

Wow Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899!

Brett Delbridge

Raines' performance is the absolute highlight of the movie for me...

Manuel Johnen

This one, da godawful faddah series, game of thrones, and a few others 👎IMHO lol 😆

Danika Silva

Blah 😑

Danika Silva

And regarding Claude Raines' character, Captain Renault, I think his most endearing quality is just how brazen he is. Like, when Strasser orders him to close Rick's Cafe, he does it under the pretense that he just learned of gambling in this place, while being interrupted by the dealer bringing him his winnings, which he accepts without batting an eye. And later, with him and Rick literally standing over Strasser's corpse, he's not even making an effort to make it convincing, when he tells the policemen to "round up the usual suspects", and I love it.

SCSponge

This movie is the reason "As Time Goes By" is played as the intro to Warner Bros movies! https://youtu.be/OT9HsNszYCI

Lynnetta

Poor Sam :(

Lynnetta

I’ve seen this for many years, and now that I’ve had a chance to look think about it, I wish there had been a scene where Rick says goodbye to Sam.

Richard Meyer

So good. Love how efficient Warner Brothers are in this film, for example, the letter to Rick from Elsa. Since she not there the letter itself starts crying😭. Also the dueling national anthems.thanks ashleigh

Richard LaMance

Veidt also memorably appeared as Cesare the "somnambulist" in the silent German Expressionist horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"(1920)

Paul Johnson

I'm on the $10 tier and unless I've completely missed them, we haven't had any patron only chats. The watch alongs are a lot of fun and to me they are worth being at the $10 tier.

Lynnetta

The German Commandant is played by Conrad Veidt. His character in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs was the visual inspiration for the Joker.

Alexander Fish

I was thinking of upgrading to the $10 tier. Do the patreon only chats mention happen on like a schedule? If so what day and time is it usually so I can know if I can participate

Elisa H.

As long as we're suggesting Billy Wilder movies, I'm throwing in The Apartment

Kevin Charley

Now you've gone Black and White going to throw in my suggestion for "Some like it Hot" again. Still probably one of the best comedies ever made.

For some reason u said tomatoes and my mind immediately went to "attack of the killer tomatoes" and I thought I had missed a reaction for a sec

Elisa H.

So glad you enjoyed this film, you'd probably also get a kick out of the SNL spoof of the ending. It absolutely cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQKVIJnfiNM

Laura Neary Smith

(original, no sequels)

Thomas Yanez

You know, you can edit your messages. Just sayin'.

Thomas Yanez

Please don’t try to guilt her into something. There are great movies out there like Boys Don’t Cry or Monster. If they are brought up then they are. There are movies I wish were put up but I’m not whining about it. They will come around. There is pride but it isn’t like there is a time limit to having that pride, is there?

GamerGal8684

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Timothy Estrada

So many good stars in this movie. Bogart was great at showing emotion without saying a word. Other great movies that he was in include: The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Key Largo, The Big Sleep, The Caine Mutiny, The Treasure of the Siera Madre, The Petrified Forest, Dark Passage, High Sierra and many more. Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains are all great actors who appeared in a lot of film noir, mysteries and intrigue.

Bill Bevins

I slipped on my keypad, so just ignore those dashes...

James Falato

6 quotes. Which is what Gone With the Wind, and Wizard of Oz have together (3 each). Bogart also gets 5 quotes (4 from Casablanca) - more than any other actor.

SCSponge

I'm sooooo excited you were captivated by Casablanca... I was wondering - as you were reacting - if you'd like the way the story ends, and you did!!! "A tip of the fedora to you!!!" (this expression uses "hat" instead of "fedora" and is ----------------------------------------------------s a sign of recognition or approcal)

James Falato

Raines was also the Invisible Man in the Universal horror movie of the same name. You won't see much of him in that. Uh he was invisible!😉

Mark Sylvester

Yay, I’m so glad you liked this and I’m so glad you liked my girl Ingrid! ❤️ The AFI’s Top 100 quotes has like 8 from this movie. If you love Ingrid, please see Notorious. If you love Humphrey, please see Sabrina and The African Queen.

Kate Cassidy

Yup. I admit I had my doubts.

Kenton Kruger

Aaaand I guess that settles it for all those patrons who thought Ashleigh wouldn't like Casablanca :)

SCSponge

and Lorre was also in Falcon.

SCSponge

Rockin' that fedora! A very fun reaction to a very fun movie! Although I personally think "The Maltese Falcon" is the quintessential Bogart movie this one is very good as well...would like to give a shout out to 2 of the supporting character actors who were probably most famous for their work in horror films: Claude Rains(Captain Renault)who starred in the original "The Invisible Man"(1933) and the amazing Peter Lorre(Signor Ugarte) who first gained notice as a fiendish child murderer in the German Expressionist classic "M"(1931)...also anyone else think it would have been cool to show the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Slick Hare"("Why did you hit me in the face with a coconut custard pie with whipped cream?") before the movie? :)

Paul Johnson

I knew you would love this film - there is a reason that it is a classic. If you want to see another film with the luminous Ingrid Bergman and another man who could get it, Cary Grant, I highly recommend Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious - which is available to watch for free on YouTube. It is a lesser known film but my favorite Hitchcock. Bonus trivia, the man who played Captain Louis in Casablanca, Claude Raines, is also in Notorious.

Cristina Collins-Armstrong

The airfield scene at the end had to be shot on a soundstage... when you see the plane off in the distance in the background, it's a scaled-down plane. The people walking around near it are actually midgets (or "little people"), to give a forced perspective that the area is much larger than it actually was and that the plane was further away.

Sinjoro Griego

I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll watch along this evening.

Richard Meyer

“Here’s looking at you kid.” Is probably the most said quote from this movie. Thank you for rocking the Fedora! Something about long red hair and that style hat that does y’all justice. You look like the character in Doctor Sleep.., oh yeah you probably should watch that too, Lol! Also, I can hear Beans breathing through the middle of this video. 🐱

Gio Vidrio

Ingrid Bergman’s daughter is actress Isabella Rossellini whose father is Italian director Roberto Rossellini. This caused quite the scandal in Hollywood at the time. She can be seen in movies like “Blue Velvet” and the must be seen “Death Becomes Her”. If you think mom’s a knockout,wait until you see her daughter. As for Bogie,you absolutely must see “The African Queen” with Katherine Hepburn. Excellent movie from 1951,in color.

Richard Stegman Jr.

I had the same reaction when I first saw this movie. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it! You nailed all of the famous movie quotes. The ending is very famous and very parodied. So glad you watched it!

Michael Waldrep

right, that's the one that people misremember (like "Luke, I'm your father"). The 6 that were included on AFI's list of 100 most memorable quotes were "of all the gin joints..." "play it Sam", "round up the usual suspects", and the 3 she mentioned (here's looking at you, we'll always have Paris, beginning of a beautiful friendship).

SCSponge

1 Champagne Cocktail Champagne 2/3 oz Cognac or Brandy 2 dashes Angostura bitters 1 sugar cube Dash the bitters onto the sugar cube, add the cognac and chilled champagne. Garnish with a cherry or citrus twist if you like

Jack Jones

After the rollercoaster that was Tomatoes, you deserved this one. Now you know why Casablanca is considered such a classic.

SCSponge

“Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World, She Walks Into Mine." Was another fantastic and well renowned quote. Also: champagne cocktail. 9cl Champagne 1cl Cognac 2 dashes Angostura bitters 1 Sugar cube Preparation Add dash of Angostura bitter onto sugar cube and drop it into champagne flute. Add cognac followed by gently pouring chilled champagne. Garnish with orange slice, maraschino cherry or lemon twist. Very tasty.

Ullatec

Another big one is "the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." So glad you enjoyed this. People were skeptical but I couldn't imagine you'd resist with the great dialogue and romance and thrills and everything. It's a delight. I'm two for two between this and Moonstruck! And now you can re-watch the two scenes in When Harry Met Sally where they talk about Casablanca with full understanding!

Tyler Foster

The only famous quote I think you missed was “Play it again, Sam”. But that might be because it didn’t actually appear in the movie.

Ian Jones

I have this recorded to my DVR. Will do the watchalong later today.

Bill Bevins