CRITERION COLLECTION: TO BE OR NOT TO BE [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1942
• Genre: Comedy, War
• Plot: As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard 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.
• Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, Charles Halton, George Lynn, Henry Victor, Maude Eburne, Halliwell Hobbes, Miles Mander, Rudolph Anders, Paul Barrett, Sven Hugo Borg, Peter Caldwell, Alec Craig, Helmut Dantine, Leslie Denison, James Finlayson, James Gillette, Leyland Hodgson, Olaf Hytten, Charles Irwin, John Kellogg, Adolf E. Licho, John Meredith, Maurice Murphy, Russ Powell, Frank Reicher, Otto Reichow, Gene Rizzi, Hans Schumm, Roland Varno, Ernö Verebes, Armand 'Curly' Wright, Wolfgang Zilzer, Ernst Lubitsch, Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer
• Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: United Artists, Romaine Film Corporation
• Media Format: Movie