Pro-allied Elements in the Film, Casablanca

When watching Casablanca, the audience will consider it a war movie I agree with this, more precisely, this is a professional Erie war movie. The literary elements in the movie are drawn in this way, with emphasis on plots and characters. The timing of film release also supports that idea that it is an anti-axis movie. Founded in 1940, it was produced one year after Pearl Harbor and the United States entered into a war, but as the allies were made public before the meeting in Casablanca, filmmakers sympathized with the allies for the audience I did it.

History intervened as producer Hal Wallis tried to make Casablanca faithful to his view on how war propaganda should be. In November 1942, the Allies landed in North Africa. In the battle of Casablanca, they achieved their first success in African theaters. The impact of this victory on the United States is very big. The city of Casablanca was mentioned almost every day by newspapers and radio, evoked a strong interest in "exotic" places, and fashion designers even started to insert Moroccan patterns on their lines 21.

Harold Brent "Hull" Wallis is a producer who oversees many of the iconic films of Warner Bros. including Casablanca and Malta Falcon. Prior to Casablanca, Wallis kept long-term friendship with Michael Curtis. Curtis believes that Wallis is a creative behind the movie and informs his friends, "This is the only person who has confidence in the movie and Jack Warner is convinced that the movie will be a disaster" . As a matter of fact, when Hanris Bogart's Rick told Reynolds of Claude Rains, Wallis was the man who wrote the last line of the movie, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a good friendship" .

In order to take advantage of this amazing historical coincidence, Wallis accelerated the production of Casablanca and made it possible to screen movies on November 26, 1942, after the Allied landings. This film was held nationwide on January 23, 1943 just as President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin plans their war strategy . Coincidentally (probably not coincidence), their conference was held in Casablanca (headquarters of Roosevelt and even codenamed "Rick's Place"), which definitely contributed nearly a million dollar interest in the film (1943 According to the year criteria, this is an astronomical number.) 22

The first release date is scheduled at the beginning of 1943, but this movie was screened at the Hollywood Theater in New York on November 26, 1942, consistent with the invasion of Allied forces in North Africa and capture by Casablanca. On January 23, 1943, it was fully disclosed using the Casablanca meeting, a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt. The War Information Bureau prevented the screening of troops in North Africa, believing that it would dissatisfy Vichy supporters in the area.