Back on November 26th 1942 the movie world was changed with the release of the Michael Curtiz directed Casablanca. The film appears on lists such as the IMDb Top 250, the Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Features, AFI’s 100 Years 100 Movies and the 2012 Sight & Sound Critics Poll. The film won Best Picture, Director and Screenplay at the 1944 Oscars. It is beloved the world over with a stacked cast that includes Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet and more. Inspired by Emma Badame’s Milestone Movie Anniversaries in 2022 over at That Shelf, we decided to see why this movie still resonates with movie lovers. Joining the show is Brodie Cotnam who was last on the show on episode 200: Movies That Made Us.
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