Casablanca Scene-by-Scene

# 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?’ Click here for shot-by-shot breakdown of this scene
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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