Casablanca

On a cold Saturday morning with the kids still sleeping, the dogs quiet and the wife out at craft fairs I took the time to watch this movie that is perpetually rated as one of the best ever.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingemar Bergmann as a couple who meet for a second time in Casablanca.

The story is rather complex but suffice to say wartime intrigue, spies, Nazi, French vichy leaders and non Vichy leaders.

The famous lines from the movie are all there of course but perhaps the most stirring moment for me was when the band at Cafe American is instructed to play the Marseilles in conflict with the German gestapo singing the German anthem.

Visually not as stunning as favorites of mine to come later. But a wonderful movie. Truly as good as expected.