CASABLANCA II – Paul Henreid

Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

CASABLANCA Review Part I
Beginning with the three top-billed actors: Humphrey Bogart as club owner Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as his ex-lover Ilsa Lund, and Paul Henreid as Ilsa’s husband, the Czechoslovakian Nazi Resistance outlaw, Victor Laszlo. Virtually all critiques of this trio leave Henreid as the odd man out, mainly because the film focuses on the love angle between Rick and Ilsa. But from a purely technical standpoint, Henreid gives, by far, the best performance of the trio. Because it is the most retrained and understated, however, it usually gets dismissed as stiff acting, rather than good acting of an intentionally stiff [...]

by Dan Schneider | December 22, 2008   
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