From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!peri!sbcs!port
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re:Casablanca, why is it so good?
Article-I.D.: sbcs.149
Posted: Fri Dec  3 21:01:25 1982
Received: Sat Dec  4 11:28:00 1982
References: eisx.456

The reason Casablanca is so good has nothing to do with it's adaptability
to TV.  First, the initial 3 times I saw it were on large movie screens.
Second, remember that it won an Oscar.
The real reason is that Rick (Bogie's character) has emotions that I, for
one, can identify with.  I've often been confronted with the problem of 
how to deal with old flames and I feel that I can see my emothions re-
flecting across Bogie's face.  Perhaps this too is the reason that the 
Bogart character was so successfully translated years later in Woody
Allen's movie/play "Play It Again, Sam".