The Elks Theatre and Performing Arts Center is proud to present “Casablanca”. If you are not here and miss this movie you will regret it, “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life”.

Perhaps the greatest Hollywood love story of them all, tells the tale of “Rick”, a saloon keeper in Casablanca Morocco, unhappy and sullen until one day when “ of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine….”. Rick and Ilsa, his never forgotten love, are cast into danger and intrigue from which neither will ever be the same...

In the early years of World War II, December 1941, the Moroccan coastal city of Casablanca attracts people from all over the world, particularly Nazi-occupied Europe. Many are transients trying to get out of Europe; a few are just trying to make a buck. Most of them -- gamblers and refugees, Nazis, resistance fighters, and plain old crooks -- find their way to Rick's Café Américain, a swank nightclub owned by American expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart). Now embittered and cynical, professing to be neutral and detached: "I stick my neck out for nobody."