Casablanca & The Maltese Falcon Free online reading

Mr Punch Presents: Casablanca, perhaps the best loved and most watched of all Hollywood movies. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical owner of Rick’s Café Americain helps his former lover Ilse Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her underground leader husband escape from the Nazis in this powerful love story, featuring the classic song "As Time Goes By".

The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade. In this compelling thriller, Sam Spade is entrusted with the safe-keeping of the much-coveted black falcon statuette as he becomes involved in a classic tale of greed and illusion.

You played it for her, you can play it for me.

Hollywood Playhouse is a collection of Oscar-winning films adapted for the radio and performed by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience.

These programmes have been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast.