To Be is To Be- To Be or Not to Be ***1/2

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2013)

If you're looking for comedy, the 1983 remake of this film with Mel Brooks, Tim Mathieson, Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning is the film for you. That was absolutely hilarious. As for the original 1942 version, it is humorous, especially when you have Jack Benny playing the lead, but there are some moments of serious overtones.
As the smitten lover, Robert Stack was incredibly wooden here. Perhaps, we can blame it on the fact that he was just beginning his career and given very little to say here.
Sig Ruman is a standout as usual as Concentration Camp Earhardt, eagerly ready to blame his failings on Schultz.
Benny and Carole Lombard provide the right chemistry as the Polish acting couple who eventually outwit the Nazis.