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To be or not to be (Motion picture : 1942)

To be or not to be / Alexander Korda presents ; an Ernst Lubitsch production ; screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer ; released through United Artists ; produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Two-DVD special ed.

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]

©2013

2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

"As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, 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."--Container.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

The Criterion collection ; 670

Criterion collection ; 670.

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

Theater -- Poland -- Drama.

Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Dark comedy films.

War films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947, film director, film producer, screenwriter.

Korda, Alexander, Sir, 1893-1956, film producer.

Lengyel, Menyhért, 1880-1974, screenwriter.

Mayer, Edwin Justus, 1896-1960, screenwriter.

Lombard, Carole, 1908-1942, actor.

Benny, Jack, 1894-1974, actor.

Stack, Robert, 1919-2003, actor.

Bressart, Felix, 1890-1949, actor.

Atwill, Lionel, 1885-1946, actor.

Ridges, Stanley, 1892-1951, actor.

Rumann, Sig, 1884-1967, actor.

Dugan, Tom, 1889-1955, actor.

Korda, Vincent, 1896-1979, production designer.

Maté, Rudolph, 1899-1964, director of photography.

Heymann, Werner Richard, 1896-1961, composer (expression)

Heron, Julia, set designer.

Irene, 1901-1962, costume designer.

Spencer, Dorothy, 1909-2002, editor of moving image work.

Kalat, David, 1970- commentator.

Binh, N. T., 1958- filmmaker.

Bernard, Jean-Jacques, 1888-1972, film director.

O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948- writer of added text.

United Artists Corporation.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screen guild theater. Selections.

Pinkus's shoe palace.

Lubitsch le patron.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942.

Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat. Disc 2: Pinkus's shoe palace (1916 film starring Ernst Lubitsch as a slapstick Jewish sterotype); Lubitsch le patron (a 2010 French documentary written by film scholar N.T. Binh and directed by Jean-Jacques Bernard, traces the career of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch); The Screen Guild Theater (two episodes of the radio anthology series: Variety (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1943)). Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1942 New York Times op-ed by Lubitsch.

Production designed by Vincent Korda ; photographed by Rudolph Maté ; musical score by Werner R. Heymann ; interior decoration, Julia Heron ; costumes, Irene ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer ; original story by Melchior Lengyel.

Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan.

DVD; NTSC; Region 1; PCM mono.

English dialogue; optional English SDH subtitles.

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