Essentially a love story, Casablanca is darker than a camel's eyeball.
A reunion between former lovers forces a bar owner to make an impossible choice amid the incivility of war.
(Country: US; Year: 1942; Director: Michael Curtiz; Writer: Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein, Howard Koch, based on the play Everybody Comes To Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Dooley Wilson, Marcel Dalio)
The narrative arc is clumsy and disjointed due to inconsistent pacing, the tone varies uncertainly between grit and a kind of solemn sentimentality, and most of the scenes drag on so long and artlessly that the drama runs out of them.
An American mercenary fights fascism in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.
(Country: US; Year: 1943; Director: Sam Wood; Writer: David Nichols, based on the novel by Ernest Hemmingway; Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou)
The chemisty is perfect. Although Bergman dominates by sheer force of character, Grant's cool persona slips effortlessly into her pocket.
Reissue for the film about spies in South America who attract Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.
(Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ben Hecht; Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Wally Brown, Fay Baker)
All in all Spellbound makes for a good watch but shouldn’t be too highly hyped.
A psychologist finds herself drawn to an enigmatic amnesiac.
(Country: US; Year: 1945; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: John Palmer, Hilary St. George Sanders, Angus MacPhail, Ben Hecht, May E. Romm; Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Norman Lloyd, Bill Goodwin, Steven Geray, Donald Curtis, Wallace Ford, Art Baker, Regis Toomey, Paul Harvey, Jean Acker)
