Reunion at Rick's, and Battle for the Beach (Casablanca / Saving Private Ryan) #18
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman capture one of the most memorable moments in cinema history in Casablanca.
Steven Spielberg presents the horrors of war in Saving Private Ryan.
Casablanca
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- Dolley Wilson, who plays Sam, was an accomplished actor, singer, musician on broadway
- Louis, played by Claude Raines, who served in WWI, had vocal chord damage from a gas attack and also had 90% vision loss in right eye
- Ingrid tv interview where she speaks of Casablanca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIRTr4Pohg
Saving Private Ryan
Watch on Netflix (6:10 - 13:49 (8 mins) or 4:31 - 28:38 (24 mins))
- The D-Day Ohama Beach landing
- Warning: film and scene contain very graphic, realistic depiction of injury and death
- Map of the area of the battle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach#/media/File:Omaha_beach_dog_green.jpg
- Photograph taken from one of the landing craft during the actual real-life battle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Jaws_of_Death
- The plastic used during the D-Day landings: http://www.sproe.com/p/pliofilm.html