Here’s No. 8 in the Top 10 of America’s Most Patriotic Movies Ever!
Number 8 in BestEverBuzz’s July 4th countdown of America’s Most Patriotic Movies Ever is also one of the best overall movies of all time: Casablanca.
We’re counting down the Top 10 of America’s Most Patriotic Movies Ever, with two each day concluding on July Fourth.
I hope it stirs your own sense of patriotism, lights your July 4th fireworks and inspires you to see these movies in a new light – or maybe see them for the first time.
After the countdown, ending on the Fourth of July, I’ll reveal five more patriotic movies that barely missed the cut. And here’s a link to No. 10 and to No. 9.
Now, here’s what makes Casablanca the No. 8 Most Patriotic Movie EVER!
- Casablanca (1942)
Arguably the best movie ever made, Casablanca is about everything good and uplifting: honor, friendship, sacrifice, love and, yes, patriotism. America is even something of an uncredited cast member: While refugees fight and finagle their way to escape Morocco to freedom and safety in America, expatriate cafe owner Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, tries to stay neutral and uninvolved. Will he ultimately see the wisdom in the world’s fight for freedom?
It’s also one of film history’s greatest romances — and Ingrid Bergman is timelessly stunning as Bogart’s all-consuming love.
Rick’s awakening may be a metaphor for America itself – which, at the movie’s release in 1942-43, was mobilizing in the fight for freedom in Europe and the Pacific.
It just doesn’t get any better than this. In fact, critics at RottenTomatoes.com give Casablanca a near-perfect 99% fresh rating.
All that is why Casablanca is No. 8 on BestEverBuzz’s list of the Top 10 of America’s Most Patriotic Movies Ever!
