To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack
Synopsis:
A troupe of Warsaw actors succeeds in running rings around the Nazi high command when a British double agent is sent to expose the Polish underground.
Review:
Hilariously tasteless and irreverent comedy with a lead duo at the peak of their form (Lombard tragically so) and some classic lines: 'So they call me concentration camp Ehrhardt, do they?' Mayer's script crackles with one-liners, and the plot moves with such dizzying speed you do not have time to consider the many implausibilities.
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack
Synopsis:
A troupe of Warsaw actors succeeds in running rings around the Nazi high command when a British double agent is sent to expose the Polish underground.
Review:
Hilariously tasteless and irreverent comedy with a lead duo at the peak of their form (Lombard tragically so) and some classic lines: 'So they call me concentration camp Ehrhardt, do they?' Mayer's script crackles with one-liners, and the plot moves with such dizzying speed you do not have time to consider the many implausibilities.
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack
Synopsis:
A troupe of Warsaw actors succeeds in running rings around the Nazi high command when a British double agent is sent to expose the Polish underground.
Review:
Hilariously tasteless and irreverent comedy with a lead duo at the peak of their form (Lombard tragically so) and some classic lines: 'So they call me concentration camp Ehrhardt, do they?' Mayer's script crackles with one-liners, and the plot moves with such dizzying speed you do not have time to consider the many implausibilities.