To Be or Not to Be (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 27, 2013
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Criterion Collection
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:
Ernst Lubitsch's picture is remarkably graceful, humane, and sidesplitting.
Premiere
Despite some of the serious situations, the comedic, brilliant, and delightful tone dominate in the movie, making it into a masterpiece. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Rating: 4/4 --
A masterpiece. ... Hurtling forward with its dizzying blend of laughs and intrigue, the movie's blessed with a script that's jam-packed with memorable quips (some laced with naughty double entendres), with most of the best ones handed over to Benny.
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Film Frenzy
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
[D]irector Ernst Lubitsch's classic original gave Jack Benny his one great movie role...
USA Today
Rating: 5/5 --
Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not to Be, starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, is a top-notch World War 2 satire taking place during the Holocaust.
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Solzy at the Movies
It isn't, I am sorry to say, Lubitsch's most intriguing comedy, nor is it the best of Jack Benny vehicles, but it will do until another buggy comes along.
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New York Daily News
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 115,810
- UPC: 715515109017
- Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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