“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Nintex]

Watched Casablanca, a massive hole in my cinema vocabulary. It was amazing. Nazis get a lot softer treatment than any other movie I've seen; they behaved generally honorably but entitled. In every other movie I've seen, they would have just snapped up Lazlo and Ilsa, or even just trumped up a charge, arrested and abused Ilsa until Lazlo caved and gave the Nazis all the details. 

Also, isn't being an escaped prisoner enough reason to arrest Lazlo at any time? I guess that gets down to Germany operating in Unoccupied French Morocco rather than Occupied France… which they even bring up at one point. 

It's a lovely film. I want to know how they get everything to look like it has bloom except Ingrid Berman's eyes, which look like pools of stars. Just gorgeously shot. 

Also curious about the airport shots: several very clearly model planes on strings, while a few look legitimate. Why not use legitimate shots throughout?

I also need to watch this some time. From what I can tell it was made in 1942 and people had a different view on the Nazis than they did in 1945. The war with France was brief, the French felt somewhat betrayed by the English (especially after the English attacked the French fleet). The Germans were seen as strict and demanding but not necessarily evil. In fact, early on they apologized for mistakes like the bombing of Rotterdam and treated downed pilots with respect, even saving the crews of merchant ships they sank with U-Boats.

Germany didn't really 'enlist' the occupied territories for the war effort until Goebbels Total War speech in 1943 and prepping defenses for a possible allied invasion increased the military and SS presence and introduced curfews, confiscation of property, mandatory labour, deportations and other unpopular measures that would define their cruelty in the eyes of the public.