# | Transition | Int./ Ext. | Scene Title | Time | Page | Comments
0 | -- | -- | [Titles over map of Africa] | -- | -- |
| 1 | Fade-in | -- | Insert [revolving globe] | -- | 1 | V.O. re. refugees in Casablanca
| 2 | Cut to | Ext. | Old Moorish section of city | day | 1 | Establishing location
| 3 | Cut to | Int. | Police station | day | 1 | Theft of papers announced (Letters of
transit - LoT)
| 4 | Cut to | Ext. | Street in old Moorish section | day | 2 | Police check man’s papers
| 5 | Cut to | Ext. | Palais de Justice | day | 3 | Inscription: ‘Liberté, Egalité,
Fraternité’. Suspects taken inside.
| 6 | Cut to | Ext. | Sidewalk café | day | 3 | English couple
| 7 | Cut to | Ext. | Palais de Justice | day | 4 | Roundup continues
| 8 | Cut to | Ext. | Sidewalk café | day | 4 | Englishman robbed
| 9 | Cut to | Ext. | Overhead shot | day | 5 | Plane landing
| 10 | Cut to | Ext. | Palais de Justice | day | 5 | Refugees look up
| 11 | Cut to | Ext. | Overhead shot | day | 5 | Plane descends past sign for ‘Rick’s Café Americain’
| 12 | Cut to | Ext. | Airfield | day | 6 | Renault greets Germans - tells them suspect to be detained later at Rick’s
| 13 | Dissolve to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 8 | Entrance to Rick’s
| 14 | Insert sign | -- | 'Rick's Café Americain' | -- | 8 |
| 15 | -- | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 8 | Refugees raising money and negotiating escape
| 16 | -- | Int. | Rick's café - gambling room | night | 10 | Rick never drinks with customers. Signs credit slip: ‘OK. Rick;. Denies admittance to German banker. Ugarte asks R to safeguard LoT.
| 17 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 16 | R slips letters inside piano. Ferrari offers to buy café. R ejects drunken Yvonne.
| 18 | Cut to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 19 | Y mentions unrequited love for R. R chats to Ren. Someone wins 20,000 francs.
| 19 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 22 | Ren. tells R that there’ll be an arrest.
| 20 | -- | Int. | Rick's café - office | night | 23 | Ren. tells R that VL is in Casablanca. R bets Ren. that V will escape. Ren. says V needs exit visas for himself and a lady.
| 21 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 27 | Strasser visits café.
| 22 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - gambling room | night | 28 | U is detained but escapes from café.
| 23 | -- | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 29 | U fires gun but is dragged off. R: ‘I stick my neck out for nobody’. S interviews R. V and I enter, looking for U. S and Ren. ask them to report to Ren. in the morning. I requests song. R & I meet. R joins I for a drink.
| 24 | Cut to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 48 | I & V leave café.
| 25 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 49 | R & Sam chat. ‘Play it!’
| 26 | Dissolve to | -- | Montage - Paris in the Spring | -- | 52 | flashback: Arc de Triomphe. I nuzzles R’s shoulder in car.
| 27 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's Paris apartment | day | 52 | I & R drink together.
| 28 | Cut to | Int. | Paris café | night | 52 | I & R dance together.
| 29 | Cut to | Int. | Ilsa's Paris apartment | day | 52/3 | I & R kiss passionately.
| 30 | Cut to | -- | Montage | -- | 53 | Newsreel footage of German occupation of Paris
| 31 | Cut to | Ext. | Paris café | day | 54 | I & R await imminent German arrival
| 32 | Cut to | Int. | La Belle Aurore | afternoon | 54 | Sam, I & R together. Price on R’s head. Arrange to meet at station.
| 33 | Cut to | Int. | Gare de Lyon | night | 58 | Railway station scene (raining hard). Sam & R wait for I.
| 34 | Insert | -- | Letter | -- | 58 | ‘...I cannot go with you or ever see you again... Just believe that I love you’
| 35 | -- | -- | Back to scene | -- | 58 | Sam gets R onto train.
| 36 | Dissolve to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 59 | I comes to see R. R: ‘Who was it you left me for?’
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| 37 | Cut to | Int. | Renault's office | morning | 61 | Str. asks Ren. to search R’s café and watch V round the clock.
| 38 | Cut to | Int. | Prefecture lobby | morning | 62 | V and I arrive.
| 39 | Cut to | Int. | Renault's office | morning | 62 | Interrogation scene: Ren., Str., V & I. Str. says intends to keep V in Casablanca. Tells him that U is dead.
| 40 | Cut to | Ext. | Black market | day | 66 | mentioned that Ferrari has near monopoly on Black Market
| 41 | Cut to | Ext. | The Blue Parrot | day | 67 | Parrot on perch
| 42 | Cut to | Int. | The Blue Parrot | day | 67 | R meets F. F offers to buy LoT. R declines.
| 43 | Cut to | Ext. | The Blue Parrot | day | 69 | V arrives as R leaves.
| 44 | Cut to | Ext. | Black market | day | 70 | Lace-buying scene. I tells R: ‘VL is my husband... and was, even when I knew you in Paris’
| 45 | Cut to | Int. | The Blue Parrot | day | 72 | F can’t get V out but praps visa for I. V tries to persuafe I to go but she won’t leave him. F suggests seeing R to get papers.
| 46 | Cut to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 76 | Neon sign
| 47 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 76 | Y seen with Germ. officer. Fight breaks out. R chats to Bulgarian girl.
| 48 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - gambling room | night | 86 | R helps Bulg. girl’s husband to win at roulette.
| 49 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 89 | Ren. calls R sentimental.
| 50 | Dissolve to | Int. | Rick's café - office | night | 90 | R refuses to sell papers to V and suggests he ask I why.
| 51 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 91 | Singing scene. Germans begin to sing.
| 52 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - balcony | night | 92 | R looks on.
| 53 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 92 | Germans singing.
| 54 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - balcony | night | 92 | V & R look on.
| 55 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 92 | Marseillaise is sung led by V. Str. & Ren. close café.
| 56 | Cut to | Int. | Hotel hallway | night | 95 | I & V walk to their room.
| 57 | Cut to | Int. | Hotel room | night | 95 | V tells I that R told him to ask her why R won’t sell him the papers. She tells him nothing.
| 58 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 98 | R & Carl review the ledgers. C leaves for (political) meeting.
| 59 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - apartment | night | 99 | I begs R to help her and V. Draws gun but they end up in passionate embrace.
| 60 | Dissolve to | Int. | Rick's café - apartment | later | 102 | I explains to R that in Paris she’d heard that V has been shot dead. Only found out he was alive and needed her just before train. Says she can’t leave R again.
| 61 | Cut to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 104 | V and C hide from police after the meeting.
| 62 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 105 | V & C take refuge in the café.
| 63 | Cut to | Int./ Ext. | Rick's café - apartment | night | 105 | R & I hear voices of V & C. R descends to main room.
| 64 | -- | Int. | Rick's café - balcony/main room | night | 105 | R sees C tending V’s wounded arm.
| 65 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - apartment | night | 106 | R tells C to take I home.
| 66 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 106 | V tells R he knew when first met R that there was something between R & I. Asks for LoT for I. Ren. arrives to arrest V.
| 67 | Cut to | Int. | Renault's office | morning | 109 | Ren. tells R not to try to help V to escape. R says that he and I will use LoT to leave Casablanca. Says if Re. releases V can arrest him as he collects LoT on a more serious charge.
| 68 | Cut to | Int. | The Blue Parrot | day | 112 | R arranges sale of café to F.
| 69 | Cut to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 113 | ‘Closed’ sign
| 70 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 113 | R reads over LoT.
| 71 | Cut to | Ext. | Rick's café | night | 114 | I heads for café as V pays cab driver.
| 72 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 114 | I tells R that V thinks that I is leaving with V and asks why R hasn’t told V.
| 73 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - office | night | 115 | Ren. observes from doorway.
| 74 | Cut to | Int. | Rick's café - main room | night | 115 | R declines payment for LoT from V. Ren. announces V’s arrest but R pulls a gun and forces Ren. to phone airport. Ren. actually phones Str.
| 75 | Cut to | Int. | German consulate | night | 118 | Strasser on phone.
| 76 | Dissolve to | Ext. | Airport | night | 118 | Airport scene. Fog surrounds transport plane.
| 77 | Cut to | Int./ Ext. | Airport hangar | night | 119 | R. holds gun on Ren. and announces that V and I will be leaving together. Iprotests in vain. Ren. countersigns papers.
| 78 | Cut to | Ext. | Road | night | 121/2 | Str. drives madly.
| 79 | Cut to | Int./ Ext. | Airport hangar | night | 122 | R tells V that I pretended to love R to get the LoT. R. shoots Str. Ren.: ‘Round up the usual suspects’. Ren. proposes to leave for Brazzaville with R.
| 80 | Fade out | -- | -- | -- | 122 |
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