To be or not to be

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Call Number: DVD Comedy To
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.
Special features: new audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat ; Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary ; two episodes of the The Screen Guild Theater, radio anthology series ; trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack.
As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
DVD, (1.33:1) aspect ration, PCM mono.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

It's not The Great Dictator, but it has its own sweet spot. submitted by lisa on July 30, 2019, 9:55am I'm blown away how such films were made while that war was still going on, and thus while it was still uncertain how it would continue, how much of the world would succumb.

This must have been one of Carole Lombard's last roles.

It's kinda beautiful, in its way. The film. Its Poland. How far people would go to fight back.