Thursday, January 20, 1934
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To Be or Not o Be. directed by Alan Johnson; screenplsy by Thomas
Mhan and Rormy Graham, based on the 1942 lilm by Ernst Lubitsch;
produced by Mai Brooks tor 2Girt Century-Fisx. At the Douglas 3, 1300 P St.
Rated PQ.
Frederick Bronskl Mel Brooks
Anna Bronskl Anne Bancroft
Andre Sobinski J'" Matheson
Colonel Erhardt Charles Durning
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To see or not to see, that is the question posed by
the latest film from Mel Brooks. To Be or Not to Be,
now playing at the Douglas 3, is a slight departure
from the usual Brooks craziness and an entrance
into the more serious world of drama.
Film
Review
The zaniness is evident in the opening scene in
which Frederick Bronski (Brooks) and his wife,
Anna, (Anne Bancroft) do a strange Polish rendition
of "Sweet Georgia Brown." The biting satire of the
next sketch, titled "Naughty Nazis," is judged too
provocative by the Polish government but this is
made immaterial by the news that war has been,,
declared.
The sudden war breaks up the young romance
between Anna and a handsome Polish pilot played
by Tim Matheson.
The film's title is derived from the cue to Matheson
that Bancroft wants to see him, behind her husband's
back . . .literally.
The film picks up when Matheson returns to
Poland to stop a Gestapo agent who is on his way to
expose the Polish underground. Soon Matheson
involves the entire theater company in undermining
the German occupation forces. -
Brooks turns out to be the hero of the film by
turning from a vain, egotistical chicken into a vain,
egotistical hero. The context of the film does not
allow Brooks to irreverently seek laughs as has done
in his earlier movies. His performance is credible as
a man changed by circumstance into realizing hi3
true talent beyond that of his questionable "Highlights
from Hamlet." His impersonation of a German agent,
a colonel and Hitler himself are some of the film's
high points.
Anne Bancroft is charming and elegant, if some
what unnerved, as Anna Bronski, queen of the
Bronski theater. Her role evolves from a lonely,
adventurous actress into a quick-thinking Samaritan.
Her juggling of the advances of scores of men while
duping the Germans and saving her theater company
is an amusing relief from some of the more sobering
scenes of the Nazi occupation.
Matheson portrays Lt Sobinski, an intensely
. loyal if not worldly pilot, driven to accomplish his
mission. Sobinski is the most static character, a
pillar of stability in an unstable world.
Charles Durning is very funny as the bumbling
and paranoid Col. Erhardt. Christopher Lloyd is the
perfect foil to Durning as the confused but loyal
Capt. Schultz. Durning and Lloyd carry on a wacky
bantern with lightning-quick gag3 in the style of
Brooks' earlier movies such as Blazing Saddles and
Young Frankenstein .
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