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This titillating situation subjects lissome Paulette to considerable pushing and hauling and anatomical investigation, permits her to display her most absentee gowns. The situation gets almost absentee itself after the Gestapo, Scotland Yard, and America's G-men have had her in & out of dungeons and the assorted paraphernalia that go with melodramatic spy pictures...
...combination of the talents of Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard and Jack Benny would certainly indicate that a highly palatable movie is in order. "To Be Or Not To Be" attempts to be a delightful and implausible tale of intrigue, spies, Gestapo and such, moulded about the tragic downfall of Poland in 1939. Like Charlie Chaplin's ill-fated "The Great Dictator" its humor is based on ridiculing Hitler and the overly efficient machinations of the Gestapo. Whether the current film is your dish or not depends upon your ability to laugh at situations founded on material which is essentially tragedy...
Bits of the picture are hilarious, deft touches that could come only from Lubitsch's direction. But they often slip over into the intensely dramatic and prevent the consistency of tone present in such Lubitsch successes as "Ninotchka." For instance, take this case: a Gestapo agent, speaking of Jack Benny's acting, says, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." The basic plot is a natural for Benny and Miss Lombard, who are cast as Josef and Maria Tura, the leading actor and actress of Poland. He is an actor who revels in Hamlet...
Correspondent Held by Gestapo...
...least one correspondent, he re-revealed, was held by the Gestapo for four months for sending information that was judged to be a state secret...