One of the many plot holes in the Swiss-cheese story-line of "Casablanca" involves the supposed death of Ugarte and the fateful Letters of Transit.
TW: Whump imagery
Ugarte reportedly dies in the custody of Captain Renault and Major Strasser, without telling them where he left the visas they're hellbent on finding. The implications are as clear as they are disturbing. Despite this, Rick and other characters continue to verbally shit on Ugarte posthumously. Of course, Rick and Ferrari have ample reason to pretend they don't care about anyone in Casablanca. But at any rate, Ugarte didn't squeal on Rick.
But is he actually dead yet? The villains announce his death the morning after his arrest. If they tortured him to death in one night, then they are massively incompetent. We don't see him die, we don't see a body, we have only the word of the villains who have every reason to lie to the Laszlos about where Ugarte is.
Best of all? When the end title comes up, Major Strasser is dead, and much of Casablanca's police force is now busy rounding up "the usual suspects." So the jail house presumably isn't as heavily guarded as usual.
You are not looking at a fan's armature hobbyist project, nor something AI generated. This is the official, professional colorization by Ted Turner's company, unleashed on the unsuspecting public in 1988.
I want you all to share in my pain.
The very first image we're greeted with is this lollypop logo:
...my thoughts exactly.
Look at the laziness of this coloring job. It's like they selected colors at random, and just covered characters' entire outfits in them. My amateur Photoshop colorizations from college had more thought put into them!
Ugarte contemplating whether his cheese curd suit was appropriate for Rick's Cafe.
"Signor Ugarte, you are under arrest for wearing that...thing."
But Ugarte's not the only one who looks like a bottle of mustard. Someone in the coloring department really loved that ugly shade of Craft yellow.
...is this Casablanca, or the Wisconsin Cheese Festival?
Because of that one line about Ilsa wearing blue on the day the Nazis marched into France, the color supervisor decided that Ilsa should only wear blue--except of course, for her cheese blouse previously shown.
Bugs Bunny turns the tables on Yosemite Sam (General Pandemonium) in this scene from “Carrotblanca” 1995 directed by Doug McCarthy. I animated a couple of long scenes where Bugs does a quick change into several different characters in order to keep Sam off balance. Bugs is pictured here, as a cigar chomping cop in the interrogation room.
Rick's Café now serves dogs and cats as delicacies to his refugee patrons
Victor Laszlo is portrayed as a loser who no one respects, because Trump "likes the war heroes who weren't captured"
Ilsa Lund is a childless cat-lady, desperate to get Rick to return her and Victor's two Persians, named Visa and Transit Letter, before they're put into a stew
The stroy involves Detective Strasser solving the mystery of when Sam turned Black. "I remember in Paris he wasn't Black, and then in Casablanca he was Black. But it makes no difference to me, whatever he wants to be..."
Signor Ugarte, a foreign immigrant criminal, is arrested and taken to prison; the following day, Captain Renault introduces the café to Signorita Ugarte. ("Rick, I hope you're impressed with my D-cups now!")
Jan Brandel is at the Roulette wheel, trying to win a dalmatian for his an Annina's dinner. Renault is trying to sexually blackmail Annina with the promise of a fresh St. Bernard. "But will he keep his word?"
Victor Laszlo is eventually arrested by Renault as well, and boards the plane at the end as Victoria Laszlo
