At the end of the movie Casablanca, one of Hollywood’s most memorable
love triangles is resolved. The setting is a fog-bound airport in
North Africa during World War II. Quick decisions have to be made
before Nazi villains arrive to arrest all three characters.s. The three are
the leading man, Rick Blaine (played by the charismatic Humphrey
Bogart), the love of his life, Ilsa Lund (portrayed luminously by Ingrid
Bergman), and Ilsa’s husband, the suave and heroic Victor Laszlo.
We’ve learned that Rick and Ilsa had an affair in Paris at the beginning
of the war, and that they had planned to escape together.
Unknown to Rick, Ilsa had recently married Victor Laszlo, a courageous
resistance leader, but she had been told that he had been killed
in a German concentration camp. Just before she and Rick are to
leave Paris, Ilsa learns that Laszlo is alive. Waiting in the rain for their
departing train, a distraught Rick receives a hurried note: