I didn't see this posted here, but I found this last night at www.videobusiness.com in their DVD news section. I'd heard speculation, but this is the first I've seen this much detailed info.

CASABLANCA ON DVD: YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER THIS
10 minutes of unseen footage on Warner special edition out in August.
By Laurence Lerman__5/21/2003


MAY 21 | Warner Home Video will celebrate the 60th anniversary of an American classic when it releases a two-disc special edition DVD of Casablanca on Aug. 5 with 10 minutes of recently discovered deleted scenes and outtakes.

The film, voted "the screen's greatest love story" by the American Film Institute, will be presented in a new digital transfer. A digital remaster was created directly from nitrate picture and sound elements to show Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains at their best.

"We were pleased that recent advances in digital technology allowed us to revisit the early restoration work," said Ned Price, VP of technical operations mastering for Warner Bros.

Prebook is July 8. The film has an SRP of $26.98.

Other new extras on the set are two audio commentary tracks from movie critic Roger Ebert and film historian Rudy Behlmer, and the featurette "The Children Remember," which includes memories from son Stephen Bogart and Bergman daughters Pia Lindstrom and Isabella Rossellini.

Other supplements on the DVD that have been available in previous video incarnations include two documentaries hosted by actress Lauren Bacall, one-time wife of Bogart: You Must Remember This: The Making of Casablanca and Bacall on Bogart; a "Screen Guild Players Radio Production" with the film's stars; scoring session outtakes; and an introduction by Bacall.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including best picture in 1943.

Nice to see they're including the previous special features as well but the Ebert commentary sold it for me.

This is great news! Roger Ebert gives great commentaries

Hopefully, the deleated scene's will not be apart of the actual movie, but in a section.

Agreed re: deleted scenes. Though if they used seamless branching, that'd be cool. Then again, almost NO DVDs use that feature. A bummer that's best saved for a different thread.

Excellent news! August 5th looks like it's going to be a wallet breaker.

I have passed on this one so many times! I can't wait until the SE gets here.

well this is a no brainer double dip

Here's lookin' at the SE....

I've held off buying Casablanca hoping for something like this. This is great news!

Me too (held off buying it because I'd heard of the SE). Bring it on.

I got double dipped.

Oh well, at least this is a great movie .

I honestly wonder if I want to see these deleted scenes. I hope they aren't something that spoils the magic.

This just may be the first time I've been really happy to double dip.

Not only am I glad that the SE is coming out, I'm glad Warner Bros. saw fit to release the old edition a long time ago so we never had to wait to see Casablanca on DVD. Too bad Star Wars wasn't treated this way.

Surely everyone remembers the lost reel containing the Casablanca alternate ending that Bart and Lisa uncovered?

(Also, I believe they excavated the "killing spree" ending to "It's A Wonderful Life".)

Like Hitler pops up out of Sam's piano, and is dispatched by Ilsa, who parachutes out of the plane to return to Rick, of course...they kiss and it fades out to the title, "The End...?"

one of the best simpson's jokes ever!

Sounds good. The ten minutes of footage has me interested as does the Ebert commentary.

I'll have it that morning at 10am sharp...unless I get it via mail earlier!!

The Looney Toon "Carrotblanca" short will also be on the DVD.

I hope the transfer is as good as Citizen Kane or Singin' In The Rain

Has "Carrotblanca" been available on DVD yet? I remeber it was one of the demos that was on an RCA disc at Circuit City when DVD first came out.

Amen to that. Thankyou, WB...

Actually, MGM released the DVD. WB just re-released it in their own packaging after they got the rights. So if they had it their own way, maybe they wouldn't have released the DVD so early.