Casablanca

Philip French

Sunday, 18 Feb 2007

# Romance films

Philip French: Looks and sounds better as time goes by

Casablanca is back on the big screen in a new print and looks and sounds better as time goes by. It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it.

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