Lazlo (Third Reich's most wanted man) just wandering around Casablanca?

Sorry that this "terrible" movie wasn't politically correct enough for you. As for it's accuracy, believe it or not it was based on a play written from personal experience (originally titled, "Everybody Comes to Rick's".
As for the "historical inaccuracy", perhaps you could elaborate on something beyond there "is not a particle of truth or reality in this film."
But assuming all your points are valid (which I strongly question). that you consider this film "terrible" invalidates every word you say. What are your favorite films?
And for the record, yes, this is one of my all time favorites, and not just because it's considered by others one of the greatest films ever made. But yes, it's not for everyone; alot of the depth of this film is over the heads of many film goers.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of Hollywood... (;-p)

Boy was quite common slang back then, as for Kid . Humprhey Bogart taught Bergman poker imbertween takes and he would often call her kid. It was a nickname that made it into the film. Also kid is quite a common phrase to describe young adults.

Except for the mention of 'camps' in Morocco and 'the Resistance' in France, there is not a particle of truth nor reality in this film.

iluvnyc,

I just read all the trivia points about the movie (which did not used to be one of my favorites, but not I see so much more in it and it's become a favorite in my old age), and was surprised to learn how many of those in the cast were actually escapees from the nazis, or otherwise refugees! Only 3 (including Bogie and the piano player were natives of the U.S.! So the errors were not so awful that they could not tolerate working on a movie laced with them. And frankly, as an employment tool for refugees of the 3d Reich it's pretty darn wonderful! It made me happy to think of them working on this movie together.

After all, it was made during wartime (many things were in limited supply), and by a hodge podge of different writers, a director who spoke English with such a heavy Hungarian accent that he often was misunderstood, and, finally, the studio system that fiddled with everything if they thought it might help box office. For example, the location was moved from Southern France to Casablanca by the studio to try to exploit the popularity of Algiers. It clearly worked--it added an excitement that isn't there in the many films located under Nazi Germany's thumb, and created the distance necessary for any form of rebelliousness out in the open to have any credibility at all.

I would not enjoy the idea of a nightclub in Vichy France knowing how the Germans tortured anyone suspected of working against them, the prisons they located inside France, and the way that one occupying force killed off entire towns of men, women and children just as they did on the Russian front. Rick's Cafe could not exist there, at least not in my consciousness.

If I am watching even those boots and uniforms Nazis wore, and the locale is anywhere near an actual camp, much less having any visible sign of the horrors wrought by the 3d Reich, I am not going to be enjoying a movie like Casablance. I'm going to be sick, on the verge of tears. We have documentaries for realism and reality. I feel it's just wrong to locate a movie that mostly occurs in a nightclub and is about people in love though on the run (from an enemy that is mostly absent) where such atrocities were taking place. That would diminish the horror. It would be disrespec tful to those who suffered. This was far enough from the horror, undeniable evil and hideous abuse of humanity that it can serve as a reason d'etre, without turning the the entertainment into something monstrous.