Description
All-New Digital Transfer Plus Four Hours of Bonus Features with Newly-Discovered Deleted Scenes & Outtakes, Two New Commentaries, New Interviews with Bogart & Bergman's Children, Radio Show with Original Cast Members, plus Rare Scoring Session Outtakes.
"Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over familiar. It plays like a favorite musical album. The more I know it, the more I like it."
-- Roger Ebert
"The best Hollywood movie of all time."
-- Leonard Maltin
The legendary Casablanca -- which starred
Humphrey Bogart and
Ingrid Bergman, won three Academy Awards including Best Picture of 1943, and went on to become one of the most popular and enduring movies of all time -- will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a Two-Disc Special Edition DVD from Warner Home Video (WHV).
The Two-Disc Special Edition DVD features a breathtaking new digital transfer plus four hours of bonus materials including many newly discovered and never-before-seen extras. Among these special features are the two documentaries hosted by Bacall; interviews with Stephen Bogart and Bergman's daughters, Pia Lindstom and Isabella Rossellini; ten minutes of newly-found deleted scenes and outtakes; TV and radio shows inspired by the film; a cartoon take-off; scoring sessions; audio program; vintage trailers and more.
Voted the screen's greatest love story and the #2 film of all time by the American Film Institute (AFI), this classic wartime romance took Oscars® for director
Michael Curtiz and screenwriters
Julius J. Epstein,
Philip G. Epstein and
Howard Koch as well as for producer
Hal B. Wallis.
This Special Edition is loaded with bonus features!
Details
Released: Wed 12 Nov 2003
Catalogue Number: DVS65681
Rating: 
Region: 4 - Suitable for Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South America, Central America, Pacific Islands and Caribbean
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- Actors: Ingrid Bergman
, Humphrey Bogart
, Leon Belasco, Monte Blue, Curt Bois, Gino Corrado, Marcel Dalio, Helmut Dantine, Martin Garralaga, Sydney Greenstreet, Creighton Hale, Paul Henreid, Olaf Hytten, Leonid Kinskey, Madeline Lebeau, Peter Lorre, George Meeker, Torben Meyer, Alberto Morin, Joy Page, Paul Porcasi, Frank Puglia, John Qualen, Claude Rains, S.Z. Sakall, Dan Seymour, Ludwig Stossel, Norma Varden, Conrad Veidt, Hans Von Twardowski, Dooley Wilson
- Art Director: Carl Jules Weyl
- Costume Designer: Orry-Kelly,
- Director: Michael Curtiz
- Editor: Owen Marks
- Producers: Hal B. Wallis, Jack Warner
- Screenwriters: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
- Studio: Warner Bros
- Feature:
- Breathtaking new digital transfer
- Introduction by Lauren Bacall
- Commentary by movie critic Roger Ebert
- Commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer, author of Inside Warner Bros.
- Theatrical trailer of Casablanca plus other landmark Warner Bros. films
- Ten minutes of newly found deleted scenes/outtakes
- Two documentaries hosted by Bacall: “You Must Remember This: The Making of Casablanca,” and “Bacall on Bogart,” the acclaimed feature-length retrospective on the life and career of her legendary husband
- Featurette, “The Children Remember,” parental memories from Stephen Bogart and Ingrid Bergman’s daughters, Pia Lindstrom and Isabella Rossellini
- The Looney Tunes gang in the cartoon homage “Carrotblanca”
- Premier episode from the 1955 “Casablanca” Warner Bros. TV series
- Audio-only treasures: “Screen Guild Players Radio Production” with the movie’s 3 stars, plus rare scoring session outtakes
- Production history gallery, photos, press materials, studio correspondence memorabilia and more.
- Audio:
- Mono - English
- Mono English
- Subtitles: English, Arabic, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Discs: 2
- Format: PAL
- Release Year: 1942
- Running Time: 98 minutes
- Transfer Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Availability
This item is on sale and will not ship until Wed 2 Dec 2009.