# Casablanca

Heard 1944. 2 episodes.

Casablanca In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan

## Sets

- Casablanca (Old Time Radio): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/Casablanca_611
- Casablanca (Listeners' uploads): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/casablanca_swr

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [44 01 24Casablanca](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/casablanca/638323bb2b3f), aired 24 January 1944 (42 min): not offered here
1. [casablanca](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/casablanca/3adf9666c417) (1 h 28 min): https://archive.org/download/casablanca_swr/casablanca.mp3

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. An episode whose only basis is its uploader's public-domain mark is not played, as that law protects it; one under its rights holder's licence plays everywhere.