Casablanca

Continuity mistake: When Ugarte escapes he turns around and shoots man by the door who falls backwards. From the immediate shot from behind the door the man is gone, and he's been replaced by a guard trying to exit through the door.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Rick and Renault walk inside the cafe to grab the 20,000 francs while the Italian and French officers discuss. A woman turns around and stares at them. A shot later she is facing forward.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Renault and Rick are watching the Lisbon airplane. Rick puts a cigarette in his mouth, unlit. From the angle shot from behind, the cigarette is gone, and smoke is coming from his hand below.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Rick signs the check, note the word OK. The handwriting is completely different between the first and second shot (a ribbon-like streak appears next to the K in the second shot).

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Rick is about to sign the check, his left hand appears in the close-up shot, but disappears on the rest of the shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the man whose passport is due is about to be shot, check the left side of the screen. There's a man with a black hat with no-one by his left. A shot later a man with a white hat and black beard appears.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While waiting for Ilsa at the train station prior to leaving Paris he and Dooley are getting soaked by heavy rain. When they board the train a moment later they are both completely dry.

Continuity mistake: When Bogie is reading the note from Bergman, it is dissolved by the heavy rain and he is dripping wet, so is Sam, who delivered the note. But then he is standing on the step of the train totally dry. (00:47:00)

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Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

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Trivia: At no point in the film does anyone say "Play it again, Sam".

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Answer: She was married then, and discovered that Lazlo was still alive.

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