The title is a reference to the famous 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy in William Shakespeare 's Hamlet. While not as good, it's a perfectly watchable, if unecessary, tribute to the To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 American comedy film about a troupe of actors in Nazi -occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. Mel Brooks's remake of the story was released in 1983, with Brooks and Anne Bancroft playing the leads.
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Playful a spirit on a movie set as Lombard? The film came from an idea by Melchior Lengyel-as did NINOTCHKA. TO BE was a perfect and brash finale to Lombard's great comic genius, especially because of it's examination of play-acting. Lombard, who, just after the film's completion, was killed in a plane crash while on her way to Hollywood for a war bonds spot on Benny's radio show. TO BE OR NOT TO BE is also remembered as the last screen appearance for the dazzling Midst of America's involvement in WWII, the film drew a great deal of criticism from people who felt that Lubitsch, a German (though he left long before Hitler's rise), was somehow making fun of the Poles. Special talents of the Tura's theater group to save and protect the Resistance.Ī satire built around a rather complex spy plot and directed with genius by Ernst Lubitsch, TO BE OR NOT TO BE lampoons the Nazis and paints the Poles as brave patriots fighting for their land, for whom Hamlet's question "To be or not to be" takes on national implications. Sobinski, however, begins to suspect that Siletsky is a spy and flies to Warsaw to stop him from keeping an appointment with Nazi colonel Ehrhardt (Sig Rumann)-an appointment that will destroy the Warsaw underground. That he is on a secret mission to Warsaw. Siletsky (Stanley Ridges), who confides to them In England, he and his fellow pilots in the Polish squadron of the RAF bid farewell to their much-loved mentor, Prof. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI.
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Maria has taken a fancy to a young Polish fighter pilot, Sobinski (Robert Stack), who is called to duty when Germany invades Poland. This is 'To Be or Not to Be 1942- Full Movie with Subtitles (720p)' by Cinema Danube on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The film begins in Poland, 1939, where Joseph Tura (Jack Benny), a tremendously vain Polish actor, and his wife, Maria (Carole Lombard), a conceited national institution in Warsaw, are starring in an anti-Nazi stage play that subsequently is censored and replaced with a production of "Hamlet." A masterpiece of satire and one of the more controversial films of its day, TO BE OR NOT TO BE is a brilliant example of how comedy can be as effective in raising social and political awareness as a serious propaganda film, while still providing hilarious entertainment.
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