Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

To be or not to be / 20th Century Fox ; Brooksfilms presents ; screenplay by Thomas Meehan & Ronny Graham ; produced by Mel Brooks ; directed by Alan Johnson ; a Brooksfilms Production distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Associates.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Two actors, Frederick and Anna Bronski, get caught up in Germany's invasion of Poland, a leaking of top secret information and an incredible plot to thwart the Nazis.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

The Mel Brooks Collection

Mel Brooks Collection.

Subjects:

Actors -- Poland -- Drama.

Actresses -- Drama.

Married people -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Poland -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Drama.

National socialism and theater -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Comedy films.

War films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Johnson, Alan (Choreographer), film director.

Brooks, Mel, 1926- film producer, actor.

Meehan, Thomas, screenwriter.

Graham, Ronny, screenwriter.

Bancroft, Anne, 1931-2005, actor.

Matheson, Tim, 1947- actor.

Durning, Charles, 1923-2012, actor.

Ferrer, José, 1912-1992, actor.

Gaynes, George, actor.

Lloyd, Christopher, 1938- actor.

Wyner, George, actor.

Stadlen, Lewis J., actor.

Riley, Jack, 1935-2016, actor.

Kessler, Zale, actor.

Morris, John, 1926-2018, composer (expression)

Balsam, Alan, 1950-1992, editor of moving image work.

Hirschfeld, Gerald, director of photography.

Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947.

Mayer, Edwin Justus, 1896-1960.

Lengyel, Menyhért, 1880-1974.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, presenter.

Brooksfilms (Firm), production company.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Associates.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher.

Other Title:

Title on container: Mel Brooks' To be or not to be

Container of (work): To be or not to be (Motion picture : 1983)

Notes:

"Based on the film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, from the screenplay by Edwin Justis Mayer, and the story by Melchoir Lengyel."

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Also issued as part of the boxed set, The Mel Brooks Collection.

Music, John Morris ; editor, Alan Balsam ; director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld.

Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Jose Ferrer, George Gaynes, Christopher Lloyd, George Wyner, Lewis J. Stadlen, Jack Riley, James Haacke, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner, Zale Kessler.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono., dual layer, NTSC.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Contents:

Special features: Behind-the-scenes making-of featurette; Character profiles and interviews with Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning.

Publisher Number:

2226731

Other Number:

71252293

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

928225

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE To be or