|A film based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's". On the one hand, the film depicts the Nazis in a negative light, as well as Vichy France being depicted in a negative light, and it does promote the idea of self-sacrifice and doing what's right even at expense to oneself via Rick. On the other hand, incidental dialogue implied that Rick had aided and supported the cause of the Communists during the Spanish Civil War (it should be noted that such dialogue was exclusive to the film and not present in the original play<ref>http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Everybody_Comes_to_Rick's.pdf</ref>), and Lazlo being an "international leader" of a resistance movement against the Nazis hints at him being a Soviet plant. In addition, one of the screenwriters for the film, Howard Koch, was a notorious communist who was later blacklisted from Hollywood via the House of Un-American Activities Committee. | |A film based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's". On the one hand, the film depicts the Nazis in a negative light, as well as Vichy France being depicted in a negative light, and it does promote the idea of self-sacrifice and doing what's right even at expense to oneself via Rick. On the other hand, incidental dialogue implied that Rick had aided and supported the cause of the Communists during the Spanish Civil War (it should be noted that such dialogue was exclusive to the film and not present in the original play<ref>http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Everybody_Comes_to_Rick's.pdf</ref>), and Lazlo being an "international leader" of a resistance movement against the Nazis hints at him being a Soviet plant. In addition, one of the screenwriters for the film, Howard Koch, was a notorious communist who was later blacklisted from Hollywood via the House of Un-American Activities Committee. |