UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15690152
Format:
1 BD (99 Min. + Bonus) : s/w
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Monaural
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1 Beih.
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1.37:1 Aspect Ratio
Edition:
Special ed.
ISBN:
9781604657609
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [BD] 670
Content:
As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled. (Criterion)
Content:
Extras: New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition New 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 Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch, and To Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O̷Brien and a 1942 New York Times op-ed by Lubitsch
Note:
Ländercode: A
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Orig.: USA, 1942
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New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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The booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1942 New York Times op-ed by Lubitsch
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Two episodes of The screen guild theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch, and To be or not to be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman
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Engl. Untertitel für Hörgeschädigte
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Ernst Lubitsch [Regie]. Edwin Justus Mayer [Drehbuch]. Rudolph Maté [Kamera]. Werner R. Heymann [Komp.]. Jack Benny [Darst.] ; Carole Lombard [Darst.] ; Robert Stack [Darst.] ... Menyhért Lengyel [Lit. Vorl.] To be or not to be
Language:
English
Keywords:
To be or not to be (Film, 1942)
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Kommentar
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Blu-Ray-Disc
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Kommentar
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Kommentar
Author information:
Heymann, Werner Richard
Author information:
Maté, Rudolph
Author information:
Lombard, Carole
Author information:
Lubitsch, Ernst
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