Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestIn this prequel to the movie, set from June 1940 to November 1941, American Rick Blaine runs the Cafe Americain in Casablanca and deals with Nazis, French, and locals in this center of World War II intrigue.
Acting
Ray Liotta as Sacha — wrong energy, weirdly compelling.
Production
Sets trying so hard to be 1942, bless them.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Soul was fresh off 'Starsky & Hutch' when he took this, proving the 80s would greenlight anything with name recognition.
This aired on NBC in 1983 and vanished so completely that film historians sometimes forget it when discussing disastrous prequels.
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