Expatriate Rick Blaine, a cynical nightclub owner in Casablanca, discovers that his ex-lover Ilsa, who abandoned him years before, has arrived in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor. With the Germans on Victor's trail, Ilsa has come to the club to beg Rick for the precious letters of transit that have come into his possession. The documents would allow Victor to escape Casablanca and continue the fight against Fascism.
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• Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman): Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): Here's looking at you, kid.
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
• Major Heinrich Strasser (Conrad Veidt): What is your nationality?
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): I'm a drunkard.
• Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): That makes Rick a citizen of the world.
• Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
• Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): The waters? What waters? We're in the desert!
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): I was misinformed.
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or ... aren't you the kind that tells?
• Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): Round up the usual suspects.
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.