To Be or Not to Be
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 19, 2016
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Reel Vault
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Carole Lombard & Jack Benny | |
Performer: | Robert Stack, Lionel Atwill, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Stanley Ridges, Tom Dugan & Charles Halton | |
Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch | |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer | |
Screenplay by | Edwin Justus Mayer | |
Composition by | Werner R. Heymann | |
Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch | |
Director of Photography: | Rudolph Maté |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Classic '40s anti-Nazi comedy has some violence.
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Common Sense Media
Although seemingly played for laughs, there is a depth and multilayered meaning to much of the action and dialogue that led an audience newly involved to consider what part they might play in a world at war.
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Cinema Siren
Rating: A+ --
To Be or Not to Be (1942) is Berlin Germany-born director Ernst Lubitsch's sophisticated screwball masterpiece, with satirical comedy, romance, and suspense. The controversial anti-war comedy about espionage and politics from producer Alexander Korda
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AMC Filmsite
To say it is callous and macabre is understating the case.
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New York Times
It's certainly one of the finest comedies ever to come out of Paramount.
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Time Out
Ernst Lubitsch's picture is remarkably graceful, humane, and sidesplitting.
Premiere
Terribly funny.
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Salon.com
Product Description:
A classic black comedy set in wartime Poland which deals with the members of an acting troupe who inadvertently become involved in the war effort. Academy Award Nominations: Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedic Picture.
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- Sales Rank: 5,650
- UPC: 644827775125
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