Casablanca tells the story of American expatriate ... this was the true last line from Rick Blaine. Rick Blaine proves himself to be an honorable and even heroic man by the end of the movie ...

Jon Hochschartner I recently made my way through Maurice Isserman’s Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism. The book provides a nuanced history of the Communist Party of the United States of America.

The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local ...

It's not hard to see why. Hero Rick Blaine (Bogart) is an aloof Casablanca cafe proprietor, an idealization of the self-willed outcast, who is sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence ...