One thing the devil can not bear, and that is to be laughed at.
| Title | To Be or Not to Be (1942) |
| Runtime | 1 hr. 38 min. |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Comedy | Drama | Family |
| Description | Ernst Lubitsch stretched the envelope of good taste to the breaking point and beyond with To Be Or Not To Be -- and, in the process, showed off the acting ability of Jack Benny and Carole Lombard to the best advantage that either of them ever had. Set in Warsaw, Poland during and after the German invasion of 1939, this comedy-drama mixed dedicated Nazis, ham actors, and earnest pilots and resistance fighters into a surprisingly (and, in 1942, uncomfortably) entertaining topical satire. |