To Be or Not to Be (1942)
A clever Ernst Lubitsch comedy satirizing Nazism right in the middle of World War II.
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Episode Notes
In the new episode of Flashback, movie critics Dana Stevens and K. Austin Collins discuss the comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942), directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Other titles mentioned in the episode:
Cluny Brown (1946)
Design for Living (1933)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Ninotchka (1939)
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
You Nazty Spy! (1940)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Angel (1937)
Black Christmas (1974)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Faces (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Billy Wilder talking about “the Lubitsch touch,” from AFI
Bosley Crowther’s review, March 22, 1942
On the next episode: Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974).
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Production by Chau Tu.