FredCDobbs

Yeah, and in real life, they can really get in the way!

Well.... this being fiction, we can do anything we want to do with the ending. The wife could have died. She could have filed for divorce. I am unsatisfied with the ending, because Jerry gets pushed aside, while Charlotte gets all the money from the Vale estate, the Doctor gets a new donated wing for his hospital from Vale money, Charlette gets her friendship with Tina, and Tina gets Charlotte. While ol' Jerry is stuck with his awful wife and ends up miserable and unhappy, although he is a very nice and honorable guy, and a great hero in this movie and in Charlotte's life. Without him, there would have been no new Charlotte and no happy Tina.

She wouldn't even kiss the guy at the end. Tina loved both of them. Charlotte loved both of them. His wife was miserable with him and Tina. If they married Charlotte, could have continued to work and play with Tina and also work on her building plans for expansion of the clinic, and travel with both Tina and Jerry.

Why didn't Charlotte want to marry Jerry at the end?

She was mainly known to us as an older woman in movies. She wasn't very attractive. She was beautiful when she was young and on the stage, but none of us are old enough to have seen any of her plays.

Me too.

I'll disqualify myself. I've known this girl's image for many years and I just love her most famous film.

Well, it's just like any form of entertainment. I know people who take baseball very seriously... also football, NASCAR, basketball. Others take music very seriously, either rock, classical, opera, or other kinds. Also, travel, fishing, hunting, hiking, and all kinds of other hobbies.

The WIZARD OF OZ and CASABLANCA clips are specifically advertising TCM, since that is the only channel that plays these films regulary. I didn't recognize any other channel in the commercial.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. I think maybe my problem is that just about all times I've seen this film has been late at night and I might have fallen asleep during various early segments. I never could figure out if her mother was a prositute and what that other family had to do with her. Now I understand.

You might be right, but I think there are several possible endings that would not have violated the Code. For example, Victor could have given the two Letters of Transit to Rick and Ilsa, saying that he had realized for some time that the passion had gone out of Ilsa’s relationship with him, and he had suspected another man was involved. He could have said he would get a French divorce in Casablanca and that would allow Rick and Ilsa to get married in Lisbon in a couple of weeks. He could have given a speech about how he had to get back to work in Europe, and alone, and the work would be so dangerous, Ilsa could not be involved with him. He could have been the one who walked off into the sunset with Captain Renault, and he could have been the one to go to off to the French Garrison at Brazzaville with Renault. By the way, Brazzaville was a real place that never fell to the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville

I find this film a little confusing.

Sometimes I wish Rick could do the thinking for me too.

Joyce Reynolds and Joan Fontaine

I saw THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS when NBC aired it in 1972. I thought it was great, but a little odd. Both odd and great.

Women then and women now are not of just one kind. Ilsa might have been a little wimpy, when compared to the two men, but we have wimpy women today too. Also, there were/are wimpy men in both eras.

I think we might need some clues.

Ilsa was the type of girl who was more beautiful than smart. She should have been honest with Rick in Paris and told him on that last day that she just found out her husband was still alive.

In old movies of the 1930s and 40s, a Pound is worth about $5 US dollars.

I agree. The first 15 or so minutes make this film seem like it is going to be dull, but it really gets going after a while. And the xxx stuff in this film is fairly shocking, even by today's standards. I loved it when Lukas finally got really mad near the end.

No, not at all. I searched through thousands of photos on Google and finally found this one. Anyone can post the next photo.