
LAST SHOWN 01/31/2026
Sat Jan 31
To Be or Not to Be

DIRECTOR
Ernst Lubitch
CAST
Jack Benny, Carole Lombard
SYNOPSIS
Even today it seems shocking that, in 1942, Lubitsch satirized occupied Warsaw with a spirited cast including Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, foiling Nazis who crack jokes about concentration camps and careening through harrowing complications like an air raid, a fatal shooting and buffoonery with a corpse. It’s all served up with that celebrated “Lubitsch touch,” which employed elegance and wit to create civilized entertainments even in the darkest of settings.
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