Casablanca - The Vintage Pin Up Posters Legend

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One of the greatest movies ever made that set the stage for many vintage pin up posters was set during the World War Two era and shot in 1942, Casablanca was a small film, which no one truly thought would grow into the classic American romance it is today. The focus is on the conflict of one man, who is fighting between doing the right thing and his lingering love for a woman.<A class="APCAnchor" HREF="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?AID=422492799&PSTID=5&LTID=16&TID1=913&lang=1">Buy Posters at AllPosters.com </A>

Casablanca has steadily grown in popularity over the years, making the movie poster one of the greatest vintage pin up posters of all time, not to mention the fact that one of the most beautiful women in the world, Ingrid Bergman, as the leading lady of this classic of vintage pin up posters.

Rick Blaine, played by Humphery Bogart, is an American café owner and expatriate hiding in Casablanca. His café, known as Rick’s Café Americain, is fast becoming a well known night spot in Casablanca, which attracts gamblers, thieves, refugees; French officials and the occassional Nazi officer. Though Rick claims to be a neutral party, he runs guns to Africa, Ethopia to be exact, during the Italian attack in 1935 and fought against the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, both which tarnishes his claims of neutrality.<A class="APCAnchor" HREF="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?AID=422492799&PSTID=5&LTID=16&TID1=913&lang=1">Buy Posters at AllPosters.com </A>

The classic film noir romance central theme focuses on the just and fairness of the world, set in one of the most corrupt places. Rick’s nightclub is a known hang out for opportunists, thieves, gamblers, ladies of the night and war criminals, so placing Isla Lund, played beautifully by Ingrid Bergman, the vintage pin up posters beauty, and her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), both who are sought after by the Nazis for their work against the Nazi regime. The odd juxtaposition of Isla seeking out Rick is like good seeking out evil, but within the frame of Casablanca it works. Also the odd mixture of Humphery Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as ex-lovers helps escort the audience into the world of contradications, however, Casablanca is famed for these very concepts.

Through confrontations and arguments, Isla finally demands the letters Rick has received off the bodies of two murdered Nazi officers. These letters will get Isla and her husband safely to America, but Rick will not give them to her. It is here that Rick and the audience learn the truth behind Isla’s untimely vanishing act. In fact, Isla was deeply in love with Rick, but having learned that her husband had not been killed by the Germans when he tried to escape from a concentration camp, as she had originally thought, she quickly left Rick’s side in Paris, to be by her husband’s bed side. Her loyalty to her marriage and her cause kept her from finding true happiness and love with Rick.

The romance classic yanks at the heart strings of audiences for decades, and the movie poster has quickly become a staple in any vintage pin up posters collector’s items. While we all know the lines, the songs that shouldn’t be played, we still can’t help but wish Isla and Rick were still together. Here’s lookin’ at you, Bogart and Bergman!