Everybody Comes to Rick's is an American play that was bought unproduced by
Warner Brothers for a record figure of $20,000. It was adapted for the movie
Casablanca (1942), starring
Humphrey Bogart and
Ingrid Bergman. Written by Americans Murray Burnett and Joan Alison in 1940, prior to the United States' entry into World War II, the play was anti-
Nazi and pro-
French Resistance. The film became an American classic, highly successful and ranked by many as the greatest film ever made.