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**He is not all that bad in any case. He has the minimal if not spectacular decency to make sure Yvonne is not compromised when drunk and more to his credit he intervenes when a refugee's wife is being extorted by Renault. He may not have intervened when an arrest was made in his tavern, but at least some of the people that Renault arrested deserved it. And nightclub owners are not in the business of second-guessing police unless they are on a jury.
* [[Lady of War]]: [[Ingrid Bergman]] seems to be a [[Damsel in Distress]] trying to be a [[Lady of War]]. More important, what she really is, is every soldier's favorite princess. Which might make this a successful attempt at inspiring the world war II version of [[Courtly Love]] from fans.
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Some of the best examples of this, with "round up the usual suspects", "We have not decided whether he committed suicide or was shot trying to escape",and "I told them to be especially destructive, you know how that impresses Germans".
* [[Leitmotif]]: Three:
** Most famously, "As Time Goes By", which symbolizes the romance between Rick and Ilsa.