Casablanca / Citizen Kane

CASABLANCA, 1942, Warner Bros., 102 min. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Winner of three Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. "Here's looking at you, kid." Tough guy Humphrey Bogart is an expatriate club owner in Morocco, nursing a broken heart after beloved Ingrid Bergman disappeared from his side in Paris when the Nazis invaded. When she re-enters his life with her resistance leader husband (Paul Henreid), sparks fly. With Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Conrad Veidt.

CITIZEN KANE, 1941, Warner Bros., 119 min. Orson Welles was only 25 when he directed this masterpiece. He also stars as Charles Foster Kane, a ruthless man who built a newspaper publishing empire, a character supposedly modeled on William Randolph Hearst. Trailblazing in so many aspects, with a fine ensemble cast (including Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Agnes Moorehead). The Oscar-winning script is by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz.