To Be or Not to Be (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (TROUBLE IN PARADISE) stars Jack Benny (THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (MY MAN GODFREY) 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.

Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Sig Ruman, Armand "Curly" Wright, James Gillette, John Meredith, Leslie Denison, Peter Caldwell, Sig Rumann, Sven Hugo Borg, Stanley Ridges, Tom Dugan, Charles Halton, George Lynn, Henry Victor, Maude Eburne, Halliwell Hobbes, Miles Mander, Erno Verebes, Leslie Dennison, Frank Reicher, Wolfgang Zilzer, Olaf Hytten, Charles Irwin, Leland Hodgson, Alec Craig, James Finlayson, Davis Roberts, Roland Varno, Helmut Dantine, Otto Reichow, Maurice Murphy, Gene Rizzi, Paul Barrett, John Kellogg

Director: Alexander Korda, Ernst Lubitsch