To Be or Not to Be (1983 film)
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To Be or Not to Be is a 1983 comedy film directed by Alan Johnson, written by Ronny Graham and Thomas Meehan, and starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. It is a remake of the 1942 film of the same title.
This remake was one of the first major American films to acknowledge that gay people were victims of Third Reich, along with Jews, Gypsies and political dissidents. This version was extremely faithful to the 1942 version, and in many cases dialog was taken verbatim from the earlier film.
Notes
- A gag starts off the Mel Brooks version with Brooks and Bancroft performing the song "Sweet Georgia Brown" in Polish, and after the performance the two have a quarrel backstage (still in Polish) until an announcer calls out: "Ladies and gentlemen, for the interest of clarity and sanity the rest of this movie will not be in Polish."
- Whenever the beleaguered German commanding officer, Colonel Erhardt, falls for the numerous tricks played on him, he roars for his assistant, "Schulz!" For his humorous performance of Erhardt, Charles Durning was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award.
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