To be or not to be

Author

Ernst Lubitsch

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Two-DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

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

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (99 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw become caught up in a dangerous spy plot.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.

Special features: audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat ; Pinkus's shoe palace, a 1916 German silent short directed by and starring Ernst Lubitsch, with a new piano score by Donald Sosin ; Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary on the director's career ; two episodes of the The Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), and To be or not to be (1942).