Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
Mister I was undoubtedly designed for propaganda as well as pleasure, but the gruff Gestapo is too charmingly outfoxed to be taken seriously. The Gestapo head, biding his time, huffs: "Rome wasn't built in a day-even by Mussolini...