Captain Louis Renault

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Captain Louis Renault is the charmingly corrupt yet ultimately principled French police prefect in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
police officer
supporting character
alignment ambiguous
appearsIn Casablanca
associatedWith Nazi occupation authorities
Vichy regime
basedOn character from the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's"
characterArc from opportunistic collaborator to quiet resister
closeRelationshipWith Rick Blaine
country France
creator Howard Koch
Julius J. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein
fictionalUniverse Casablanca (film)
filmDirector Michael Curtiz
filmGenreContext romantic drama
war film
filmProductionCompany Warner Bros.
filmReleaseYear 1942
finalLineContext "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
finalSceneAction walks away with Rick Blaine into the fog
firstAppearance film "Casablanca" (1942)
frequentLocation Rick's Café Américain
gender male
languageSpoken English
French
laterLoyalty Rick Blaine and the anti-Nazi cause
loyalty self-interest (initially)
medium cinema
narrativeRole comic relief
moral foil to Rick Blaine
nationality French
notableAction orders the rounding up of the "usual suspects" to cover for Rick
notableQuote "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
"Round up the usual suspects."
occupation police prefect
personalityTrait charming
corrupt
cynical
pragmatic
ultimately principled
portrayedBy Claude Rains
positionHeld Prefect of Police in Casablanca
setting Casablanca, French Morocco
warContext World War II
worksFor Vichy French authorities


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