Jack Benny, Carole Lombard and one giant headache

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2007)

Varsaw 1939.Second Worldwar is on its way-and so is Hitler.Jack Benny and Carole Lombard play actors Joseph and Maria Tura-and yes, they're married.Joseph has got also another problem that has nothing to do with the Nazies.He thinks his wife is cheating on him.Maria has told the young Lt. Stanislav Sobinski (Robert Stack) to come to her after her husband starts the monologue of Hamlet.Ernst Lubitsch is the director of To Be or Not to Be from 1942.It's awfully funny in many parts.When the magnificent, and Jewish comedian Jack Benny does a Nazi, it's just hilarious.Sure it has got some drama too, because of the war topic.This was the last movie of the glorious Carole Lombard before she died in an airplane crash.She was too young to go.It's been 65 years since this picture was made and a lot has happened in that time.There is no Adolf Hitler anymore and the world lives in peace.Do we? Sadly there will probably always be wars.But luckily there are those fine comedians to make it all better.The darkest matters can be turned into something funny.Another fine comedian Mel Brooks starred a new version of this movie in 1983.That was also hilarious in many parts.Thank you for making us laugh, comedians.