Rick Blaine

Rick Blaine is a fictional bartender and business owner featured in the 1942 film Casablanca. The character is based on the main character featured in the 1940 stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's. In Casablanca, the role of Rick Blaine was played by actor Humphrey Bogart.

Overview
Rick Blaine is an American expatriate who operates a caf out of the city of Casablanca in Morocco at the height of World War II. He is the former lover of Ilsa Lund, whom Rick had a whirlwind romance with in Paris some time earlier. Ilsa spontaneously comes back into Rick's life but now needs his help with smuggling her current paramour Victor Laszlo out of the country. Rick struggles with his re-emerging feelings for Ilsa while also balancing his dangerous affairs at the caf, which also operates as a stop-gap for people fleeing the country.