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...performances in this movie have become as classic as the story and just as susceptible to imitation--often by the same people. The late Sidney Greenstreet played Caspar Gutman ever after, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade...
Died. Sydney ("The Fat Man") Greenstreet, 74. British-born stage comedian turned Hollywood cinemenace (The Maltese Falcon, The Hucksters, Malaya); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...performances in this movie have become classic as the story and just as susceptible to imitation-often by the same people. Sidney Greenstreet has been playing Caspar Gutman ever since, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with in scrutible smiles and tough wisecracks. The line: "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade...
Casablanca has Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains and Sidney Greenstreet and a silly and improbably story about a tough guy saloon keeper who helps the girl he loves--and her husband--to get out from under some polite, choke-collared Nazis...
...Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the same thing, but what they do or say is unimportant; it's the remarkable far-eastern aura they create that counts...