To Be or Not to Be

  • Comedy
  • War
  • Romance
3/6/1942
99
NR

The Picture Everyone Wants to See

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Revenue:
$1,500,000
Budget:
$1,200,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    So, a Polish acting company are busy putting on Hamlet whilst the Nazis are preparing something altogether more menacing across the border. Joseph (Jack Benny) and wife Maria (Carole Lombard) are the stars of the show, and she has no shortage of admirers including an air force officer Sobieski (Robert Stack) who bravely decamps to the UK following the invasion to join the RAF. Rather foolishly, as it turns out, the enthusiastic young Sobieski confides some highly confidential information about the resistance to fellow citizen Prof. Siletski (Stanley Ridges) who is about to return home to Poland. No sooner has he left than they discover he is really a Gestapo spy and is now equipped with a list of those resistance fighters working in Warsaw....

    January 11, 2026

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