Casablanca: "I wore gray, you wore blue"

First off, I apologize for the delay in posting. We've had a few weeks off based on schedules, etc.

So then, Casablanca.

Set in Rick's Cafe in 1942, it chronicles the ill-fated love story of Rick Blaine (an American expatriate and general crusty guy with baggage but a good heart) and Ilsa Lund (Czech beauty full of allure and mystery). Rick and Ilsa met in Paris and fell immediately in love, but Ilsa left him waiting at the train station after he proposed; it turns out that she's married to Czech freedom fighter Victor, who had shown up alive and well. Rick found his way to Casablanca and opened up a club, aptly titled Rick's Cafe, a swinging hotspot for all the Europeans trapped in Casablanca before they could make an escape to America.

Rick has two exit visas, which Ilsa and Victor need to escape to America. Will he deny them freedom and ensure Victor's certain death as the Nazis move to take over North Africa? Will he leave with Ilsa? Will he swallow his own pride and love, give them the passes, and live out his lonely life in Casablanca, with only the beginning of a beautiful friendship with Captain Renault to give him comfort?

Of course, Rick sends the couple on their way, with the promise that he and Ilsa "will always have Paris".

Certainly a classic. The wonder that is Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is before you for the entire film. And the wonderful lines of the movie--"here's looking at you, kid", "round up the usual suspects", and of course, "Play it again, Sam" (which isn't actually said, but who's counting? It's pop culture.)

Pros: the mellow tones of Bogie, the smoldering of Ingrid Bergman, the power of a true love story.
Cons: can there be cons? It's Casablanca.

I eagerly await some posts from the other club members. *Ahem*. That means you, guys. We even have a Casablanca expert who joined in to watch....