50 Greatest Movie Scenes Ever

2. Here's Looking At You, Kid - Casablanca

Casablanca Here's Looking At You
Warner Bros.

Casablanca remains to this day one of the greatest romances ever made, and a lot of that is thanks to the choice Rick makes in the end.

Rick's farewell speech to Isla, and her get away, tinge the movie with sadness; there's no real happy ending here, but instead a pair of people who loved each other once, and still love each other now, but that needs to be sacrificed for a bigger purpose.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are electric here, with their passion and hurt dripping off the screen. Not only does it include one of the most quoted lines in cinema history, but the goodbye speech is the poignant capper on one of the medium's most enduring love stories. There's a reason that the film continues to be THE quintessential Hollywood movie, and an enduring, ever-resonating classic about love, and it's all in the romance and pain of this scene.

Here's looking at you, Casablanca.

[JH]

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