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Rick (Charles McGraw) runs a bar in postwar Casablanca, where spies
meet regularly to buy, trade or steal secrets, & Rick makes no
distinction where they are from. He is much more interested in beautiful
scientist Trina, whom he loves, while at the same time the secrets she
holds make every spy of every superpower in town want her, as well as some private organizations.
Rick turns down a request of an American
diplomat to win her over for his country out of patriotism, claiming he
has passports to 2 dozen other countries as well, but when he has to
help a poor Russian to get asylum in the USA, both his & her hearts
melt for Uncle Sam, & Rick promises her to arrange for her to safely
get to the US, claiming she will be back in a mere 6 weeks, but deep inside
his heart he knows that he will never see her again but is doing the
right thing. Desperate made-for-tv-attempt to recapture the
spirit of the original 1942-film Casablanca, with the story moved
from World War 2 to the (then) contemporary Cold War though, which of
course robs the whole situation of the desperation felt in the original,
turning Rick from a disillusioned antihero into a nice uncle casually
dropping in at cocktail conversations, thus riddng the story of all of
its appeal, making this one utter, forgettable nonsense. |
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