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Lord X

So they call me Concentration Camp Ehrhardt?
12 years 11 months ago
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sureup

Love it! A lot of really good laughs without getting too silly.
11 years 11 months ago
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criscoJovan

"Here is a man with a beard and you didn't even pull it!"
11 years 2 months ago
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Fluegi

Incredible comedy from 1942! I think it's the main blueprint of Inglourious Basterds and it's even better.
7 years 1 month ago
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Shingwauk

"You can't have your cake and shoot it too!"
9 years 6 months ago
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Lumen

Wonderful movie! the humor is so good, and it's full of interesting subtleties. It has one of the best opening scenes ever!
8 years 2 months ago
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Prof. Lumpcicle

SCHULTZ!!!!!
11 years ago
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iCheckFilms

My 1000th check. And, boy, was I entertained!! :)
12 years 3 months ago
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TheMajor

Probably my favorite comedy; at least the one with the most laughs.
13 years 1 month ago
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idjutt

'Heil myself!'


'Shall we drink to a blitzkrieg?'


'What he did to Shakespeare we are now doing to Poland.'


'Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.'
3 years 2 months ago
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Paulorsadv

Carole Lombard died only few months after finish this movie, very talented actress.
8 years 8 months ago
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boulderman

10/10 best film I've seen this year :)
12 years 5 months ago
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Siskoid

If To Be or Not to Be feels so ballsy, it's because it is. It's lighter to be sure, but it's essentially Ernst Lubitsch's The Great Dictator, in which he manages to balance his brand of witty comedy and the Nazi invasion of Poland. Bumbling Nazis at times, but still murderous ones, and Lubitsch makes us smile at jokes about concentration camps and shenanigans with a corpse, while also showing us a devastated, #notajoke, Warsaw. You can definitely see how it inspired Mel Brooks down the line (who would star in a 1983 remake). It couldn't do very well in 1942, released two months after Carole Lombard's death (while on a tour promoting war bonds), but with the benefit of distance, it's become an enjoyable comedy of errors in which a theater troop tries to keep a spy from passing information to the Gestapo by dressing up as Nazis and so forth. It's got a fun Mission Impossible vibe, but where the mission is put in jeopardy by artistic egos and a man's jealousy for his wife's admirers. We perhaps don't get enough of Jack Benny's Hamlet, but it still gives us the title. Appropriately, The Merchant of Venice is also important.
4 years ago
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boulderman

An air raid siren and the first evening of war? The accents were a shame. Watching it again tonight, rank it 10/10 but this observations and the cut from Gestapo to Hamlet seemed sudden.
5 years 2 months ago
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rabsi1

I honestly thought Sobinski was the villain of the film at first because of how creepy he was.

Very funny film overall! 8/10
8 years 1 month ago

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