To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be will play at the Roxy on Tuesday, April 14th at 7pm.
This classic is highly regarded. One description of the film at amazon.ca says:
Just as Roberto Benigni found himself on the receiving end of some finger-wagging for making a comedy set during the Holocaust, so the great Ernst Lubitsch caught some heat for this extraordinary 1942 satire set behind enemy lines during World War II. In his best performance on film, Jack Benny stars as Joseph Tura, the lead actor and head of a Polish theater troupe that is suddenly enlisted as a Resistance organization when an American pilot (Robert Stack) requires protection. The twist is that [continue, but only if you don't mind a few spoilers]
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