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To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
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Just as Roberto Benigni found himself on the receiving end of some finger-wagging for making a comedy set during the Holocaust, so the great Ernst Lubitsch caught some heat for this extraordinary 1942 satire set behind enemy lines during World War II. In his best performance on film, Jack Benny stars as Joseph Tura, the lead actor and head of a Polish theater troupe that is suddenly enlisted as a Resistance organization when an American pilot (Robert Stack) requires protection. The twist is that the pilot has been having a series of trysts with Tura's wife (Carole Lombard), the hilarious evidence being the disruptive departure of Stack's...
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An odd comedy set in Nazi-occupied Poland, this film stars one of my all-time favorite comedians, Mr. Jack Benny.(if you have never seen his show, you are missing out) as a stage actor who must stage a scene to help he and his wife (the incomparable Carole Lombard) escape. Their ruse involves a pilot, Hitler, 'Hamlet', a...
(complete To Be Or Not To Be review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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