To Be or Not to Be (1942)

8.4	Listal rating
8	IMDB rating

Comedy (6), War (4), Drama (3), Theater (3), Hitler (2), Airplane (2), Scotland (2), Satire (2), 1940s (2), WWII (2), Nazi (2), 1942 (2), Gestapo (2), Infidelity (1), Singing (1), Jewish (1), British Intelligence (1), Nazi Occupied Poland (1), World War 2 (1), Flashback Sequence (1)

Description

In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Starring (View all) :

Carole Lombard

Maria Tura

Jack Benny

Joseph Tura

Robert Stack

Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski

Greenberg

Rawitch

Professor Siletsky

Col. Ehrhardt

Bronski

Producer Dobosh

Actor-Adjutant

Written by (View all) :

Melchior Lengyel

(story)

Edwin Justus Mayer

(screenplay)

Videos


	To Be or Not to Be Carole Lombard's last movie. Also with Jack Benny

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