To Be Or Not To Be (Criterion Collection) (1942) On DVD

Actor:          Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges
Director:     Ernst Lubitsch
Genre:         Comedy
Year:            1942
Studio:        Criterion Collection
Length:        99
Released:   August 27, 2013
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            Black & White
Language:   English
Subtitles:      English

DESCRIPTION:

As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise) stars Jack Benny (The Jack Benny Program) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey) as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. 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.

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