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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, Ernst Lubitsch and Edwin ...
- $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
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 ...
- (207)
- Alan Johnson
- PG
- Mel Brooks
To Be or Not To Be. It's an old gag, the one about the actor who is always interrupted in the middle of Hamlet's soliloquy by a guy in the third row who has to go to the john and loudly excuses himself all the way to the end of the row. But I can't think of a better Hamlet for this particular gag than Mel Brooks. "That is the QUESTION!"
The man, Lt. Andre Sobinski (Tim Matheson), meets with Anna in her dressing room -- the line "To be or not to be" was a signal for him to sneak backstage. Sobinski himself is an adoring and devoted fan of Anna's and is deeply smitten with her. One night, officials from the Gestapo arrive at the theater and demand that all Jewish cast and staff ...
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.
