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Dr. Frederick Bronski
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Box office. $13 million [3] To Be or Not to Be is a 1983 American war comedy film directed by Alan Johnson, produced by Mel Brooks, and starring Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, and José Ferrer. The screenplay was written by Ronny Graham and Thomas Meehan, based on the original story by Melchior Lengyel ...
- $9 million
- John Morris
- December 16, 1983
- Mel Brooks
Dec 16, 1983 · To Be or Not to Be: Directed by Alan Johnson. With Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner, Zale Kessler, Jack Riley. At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
- (12K)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Alan Johnson
- 1983-12-16
In 1972, Ernst Lubitsch's World War II-era comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942) was included in the Los Angeles Film Festival, thirty years after its original premiere. The screening provided cinephiles and critics alike with the opportunity to reassess what had been in its day a box office failure, damned by both the tragic death of leading lady Carole Lombard in a plane crash while on a bond ...
- Alan Johnson
- Robert B Goldberg
To Be or Not to Be. Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft star in this comedy as actors trying their bumbling best to save the Polish underground from the Nazis. 383 IMDb 6.8 1 h 47 min 1983. X-Ray PG.
To Be or Not to Be (1983) To Be or Not to Be (1983) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks) and his adulterous wife, Anna (Anne Bancroft), are a pair of hammy actors ...
- (22)
- Comedy, LGBTQ+
- PG
Charles Durning plays a rigid but peculiarly confused Nazi colonel, and Tim Matheson is the young aviator who excuses himself loudly and sneaks backstage to meet Bancroft. The veteran actor Jose Ferrer plays Professor Siletski, a two-faced collaborator. It will probably always be impossible for Brooks to remain entirely within the dramatic ...
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