[jason taylor]

Don't forget Bogie. Most of his roles are antiheroic for the time they were written. His stereotyped character is dark and cynical and if he does heroic things it looks as if he is forcing himself. For instance, Rick Blaine is still in a depression over The One That Got Away. He maintains his nightclub by befriending an odious (if charming) petty local tyrant. In the past he was a merc and claims he was merely looking for money in defiance of Ilsa (despite what the movie said the other side would not have paid more in Ethiopia and it was a coin toss in Spain). He is not as natural a hero as Victor. On the other hand he takes good care of his staff, and even lets a young Bulgarian win a jackpot so that his wife won't give her honor for a passport. And in the end he lets The One That Got Away get away again and learns to accept it.

He is more subtle than later antiheros. But Rick, like other Bogies is definitely an antihero for his time.