Product Details

• Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
• Directors: Michael Curtiz
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: June 9, 2009
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002C6A6FY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,360 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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165 of 165 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2009 Release is Identical to 2003 Release, January 30, 2010

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Leif Sheppard (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)

This 2009 release of "Casablanca" is identical to the 2003 Special Edition release, except it's packaged in a regular DVD case as opposed to the cardboard case of the original. The first disc contains two commentary tracks (one with Roger Ebert, one with historian Rudy Behlmer), a two-minute introduction by Lauren Bacall, and a gallery of trailers. The film transfer is also identical to the original release, but this film looks about as great as it possibly can on DVD.

The second disc contains the one hour and twenty minute 1988 "Bacall on Bogart" documentary and a thirty-five minute making-of documentary "You Must Remember This: A Tribute to Casablanca". Next is a seven minute feature with Bogart's son and Bergman's daughter titled "As Time Goes By: The Children Remember", along with the eight minute 1995 cartoon spoof "Carrotblanca". A selection of deleted scenes and outtakes, totalling about seven minutes, are of particular interest here (though there is no sound for any of them), and a "Production Research" gallery. Of lesser interest is the premiere episode from the 1955 "Casablanca" TV series titled "Who Holds Tomorrow?", it's a noble failure and clocks in at about nineteen minutes.

As far as special features go, the only thing the "Casablanca" Ultimate Collector's Edition has over this release is the hour-long 1993 documentary "Jack Warner: The Last Mogul" on a third disc. It's quite entertaining and informative, particularly for film buffs, but it's really the only reason to purchase the 'Ultimate' edition. That is, unless one cares about a small book of production photos, office memos, lobby & poster cards, and a passport holder and luggage tag emblazoned with "Casablanca".

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They'll always have Paris; we'll always have CASABLANCA, April 4, 2010

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)

When CASABLANCA was widely released to theaters in January 1943, its producers and Warner's had no inkling that this would become a cinematic immortal. (Events similar to what occurred with Fox's 1951 sci-fier, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.)

In the seven decades since a never mounted stageplay called "Everybody Comes to Rick's" was adapted for the screen by the Epstein twins and Howard Koch, CASABLANCA has spawned two short-lived TV series, but wisely on the part of filmmakers, no motion picture rehashes. Here we have an ideal cast following a perfect script; a timeless love story that ends happily for no one that's set in a North African stopping point for refugees of a merciless war. Their German oppressors are here as well in these final days before the Allied invasion of North Africa.

Former gun runner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) owns "Rick's Café Américain", a place that folks of all political persuasions and nationalities gravitate to. His loyal friend and piano artisté Sam (Dooley Wilson) performs every song but one, that is until Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) wanders in, spots him at the keys and coos, "Play 'As Time Goes By'." When Rick storms over to chastise Sam for the song he never wants to hear, he and Ilsa are reunited. We soon learn of their affair in Paris and sudden parting while Germans marched in, Rick's hard feelings at Ilsa's disappearance that day, and the love which yet remains within him.

All this amid the chaos of other lives, people scrambling for impossible to get papers of transit even as an ever-present enemy heightens their awareness of danger. The Italian Ugarte (Peter Lorre) gives Rick two of these priceless letters just before he's arrested by Louis Renault (Claude Rains), a corrupt police captain. Ugarte dies in custody, leaving an embittered Rick with the dilemma of giving the transit docs to Ilsa and her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), a Czech Resistance refugee, or saving them for his own escape. Lazlo selflessly suggests that Rick use the papers to escort Ilsa to safety while he remains in Casablanca. Then Laszlo is arrested by Renault on a false charge...


CASABLANCA is the one film that all Classic Era movie fans should own, and the one to be seen repeatedly. It never ages, defying time itself even "as time goes by."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Movie (that wasn't expected to be), May 20, 2010

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SUSAN HEIDARIFAR "Classic Movie Fan (Behindth... (Alameda, CALIFORNIA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)

I just LOVE this movie, "CASABLANCA", for so many reasons. For one, there is an excellent cast. Another thing are the classic "lines" - which are memorable, and so perfectly timed. (There are so many of them, one has to see it a few times to catch them all.) For those who think of it as a "chick flick" - it is not. The romantic part is just what all movies are expected to have: romantic, comedy, what is going to happen (i.e. boy meets girl, loses girl, then gets girl USUALLY), and then there is a great cast.
This movie was not expected by neither the actors, studio, or others to enjoy the success it got and still has. But, it has stood the test of time as well as taking home the BP OSCAR. The two-disc edition is for those who love outtakes, etc., but all I need is the movie and I cannot see it enough. I don't get bored with it, and still - after at least 40 viewings - find new things which crop up I haven't caught before.
After the number of actors who turned the part(s) down - it worked perfectly the way it was. Sometimes, it is hit or miss, and this is a sure-fire hit! (I only wish they still made movies like this!)