~~ One of my all time favorite movies~~

I Love old movies.. Growing up I used to rent a handful of them and have old movie nights. I would watch Danny Kaye, Bogart, Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly.. To name a few. I was always fascinated by these movies and loved getting lost in a another time and place. To this day I love going to the movies..

Some of my favorites were movies like.. Singing in the Rain, South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, Don't Eat the Daisies, Pillow Talk, The Beach Movies with Annette and Frankie, Anything Bob Hope, Anything Danny Kaye.. I love Danny Kaye, Abbott and Costello.. I love the old comedies. There are too many to write here of the movies I love.. So I am going to focus on one of my all time favorites.. and my all time favorite movie.

Humphrey Bogart.. He has made such great movies like " The Maltese Falcon", the original "Sabrina", "African Queen".. And this is to name a few.. But the ultimate for me was and still is the movie "Casablanca". This movies has everything.. Humor, intrigue, love, Lost love, passion, friendship, standing up for your beliefs, corruptions, music and sadness. It is the ultimate movie with such lines like these....


Ilsa Lund: Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.


Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.


Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.


Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.


Rick Blaine: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Capt. Renault: I'm shocked ... shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Capt. Renault: Oh, thank you ... very much. Everybody out at once!


Capt. Renault: Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.


And the two most famous lines


Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): You're saying this only to make me go.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): But what about us?
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): When I said I would never leave you.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

They truly don't make movies like the classics any more.. Don't get me wrong I still love the movies and they do make amazing things happen on the big screen... But there was a magic in the old movies that will never be captured again.. Thankfully we can all relive them time and time again on Tape or DVD..

So .. Grab some popcorn.. Pop in your favorite movie and snuggle up and escape into another world and enjoy!!!