Casablanca

Question 1

what was Casablanca based on?

Answer 1

an un-produced play, Everybody Comes to Rick’s

Question 2

who wrote Everybody Come’s to Rick’s?

Answer 2

Irene Lee

Question 3

how many writers did Casablanca have?

Answer 3

7

Question 4

how long did it take to shoot Casablanca?

Answer 4

59 days

Question 5

was the shooting behind schedule?

Answer 5

yes, by 11 days

Question 6

what was the final cost of Casablanca?

Answer 6

$1,039,000

Question 7

who was the producer of Casablanca?

Answer 7

Hal B. Wallis

Question 8

who directed Casablanca?

Answer 8

Michael Curtiz

Question 9

who were the screenwriters for Casablanca?

Answer 9

Aneas MacKenzie & Wally Kline
Julius and Philip Epstein
Howard Koch
Casey Robinson
Lenore Coffee

Question 10

who were the leading players in Casablanca?

Answer 10

Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Paul Henreid

Question 11

who were the supporting players

Answer 11

Sidney Greenstreet
Peter Lorre
Conrad Veidt
Claude Rains
Dooley Wilson

Question 12

what was the musical score

Answer 12

Max Steiner
La Marseillaise
Deutschland uber alles/ Wacht am Rein
As Time goes by, composer Herman Hupfeld

Question 13

where was Casablanca shot?

Answer 13

135 acre Warner facility in Burbank

Question 14

what was the one scene that wasn’t shot in a studio

Answer 14

the airport scene, it was shot at Metropolitan Airport

Question 15

where was Casablanca first screened?

Answer 15

New York on 26 November, 1942

Question 16

what did the screening coincide with?

Answer 16

the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of the city Casablanca

Question 17

when was Casablanca more widely released?

Answer 17

January 23, 1943, during the high profile meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in Casablanca itself

Question 18

how many academy awards was Casablanca nominated for?

Answer 18

8

Question 19

what did Casablanca win?

Answer 19

best picture
directing
adapted screenplay

Question 20

where is Casablanca set?

Answer 20

in Casablanca, Morocco in the early days of the Second World War

Question 21

what was Morocco?

Answer 21

a French Colony up until 1956

Question 22

who are the main agents of action represented in the film?

Answer 22

Nazis
Vichy government
The Resistance

Question 23

who represented the Nazi presence in Casablanca?

Answer 23

Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt)

Question 24

why did many French join the resistance?

Answer 24

because they saw the arrangement between the Vichy government and the Nazis as a betrayal

Question 25

who plays Captain Renault

Answer 25

Claude Rains

Question 26

what is the Resistance?

Answer 26

French nationalists and others fighting against the oppression and suffering cause by the Nazi and Vichy regimes

Question 27

who is Victor Laszlo

Answer 27

played by Paul Henried, he is a Czech national, the leader of the Resistance movement

Question 28

who is Rick Blaine

Answer 28

played by Humphrey Bogart, he is initially presented to us as a man who is only out for himself. References are made to Rick’s profiteering from trading arms during conflicts

Question 29

what does Rick represent?

Answer 29

the US, as reluctant to get involved int he war and during this initial period is clearly seen to be serving his own interest

Question 30

who is Isla Lund?

Answer 30

played by Ingrid Bergman, she arrives with Victor and represents many of the displaced people of Europe who are caught up in the global conflict of WWII