To Be or Not to Be 1983 123movies

Watch: To Be or Not to Be 1983 123movies, Full Movie Online – At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor’s family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis..
Plot: A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he’s on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 11,344
	60% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 172 Popularity: 9.481 | TMDB

Reviews:

The most under rated Brooks film
When I saw this I had no idea it was a remake. I didn’t know the original had been rated the 49th best comedy of all time by the AFI or that Brooks neither wrote nor directed it.

What I knew was that from the moment it started to the moment the curtains came down I was laughing nonstop in awe of an incredible plot. The film managed to escalate with each passing scene. Just when you thought nothing more could be done to it, they managed to push it further and further. Brook’s performance was dead on, as was the entire casts. It’s the sort of movie that gives Christopher Loyd only seven or eight lines, and you love him for it and need to ask for anything more.

It continually makes fun itself, building on jokes you thought were over half a movie ago. I’d place this movie above Spaceballs and below Men in Tights, but would say that it is without a doubt the best plot of any movie I’ve seen in some time, comedy or otherwise.

This is a movie that you should waste no time seeking out and renting, buying, seeing in whatever way you can.

Still not sold? I’ll retell one of the jokes. Don’t read further if you want the first five minutes to be as fresh as they were for me – if you’re debating whether to see it or not, I hope this is able to sway you.

They’re in a theater, putting on a show. We hear the Polish songs – not quite sure what they’re singing about. The curtain comes down on the two actors smiling and bowing together as the audience claps. The moment the audience can no longer see them the actors start bickering in Polish. We’re not sure what they’re discussing, but it’s clearly a heated debate. The curtain then comes up, they immediately are smiling, bowing, curtain comes down once again and it’s back to the Polish bickering. They continue bickering, stopping for an announcement over the loudspeakers in this vaudeville theater. “Attention, for the Sanity and Clarity of the Audience the rest of this movie will be English”

Then the movie switches into English, and the plot begins.

Soul Clap Its Hands.
If it was funny forty years ago, why shouldn’t it be funny now. I can imagine that there’s an entire sector of social space that has never seen Jack Benny and Carol Lombard in the original. (“I don’t watch black-and-white movies.”) And if the same sector doesn’t have much of a grasp of affairs in Poland in 1940, so much the more informative.

Mel Brooks leads a theatrical troupe in Warsaw in 1940 after it was occupied by the Nazis. The plot is too complex to describe in detail but involves a great deal of impersonation, switching uniforms, lambasting the Nazi hierarchy, and poking fun at egotistic actors.

The plot and dialog borrow heavily from 1940 but some of the jokes have been brought up to date. I’ll mention just two.

The troupe is desperately seeking safety from bombs and when they enter the shelter, one actor makes the sign of the cross. The next in line, presumably Jewish, goes through some contortions over his thorax with his fingers. Now, I may be mistaken but I think this is an allusion to an old joke. An airplane in jeopardy finally makes a safe landing. A minister gets off and makes the sign of the cross, as does the priest who follows him. The Rabbi makes a sign too and when asked about it by a reporter, replies, “What sign of the cross? I was just checking — spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.” The troupe’s dresser is openly gay and he explains to Anne Bancroft that he hates having to wear a pink triangle. “It CLASHES with EVERYTHING.” The acting was suitably hammy in Ernst Lubitsch’s movie. Here, the performances out-Herod Herod. If you want subtlety, see the original. Charles Durning is a fine actor but may be miscast here. Anne Bancroft is beguiling, a splendid and under-rated actress with a skull and a frame sufficiently gracile to die for. I speak to you as your anthropologist. My services come with a fee — ten cents.

You should probably watch this. It’s still funny after all these years.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 13030214
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama, War
Director Alan Johnson
Writer Thomas Meehan, Ronny Graham, Edwin Justus Mayer
Actors Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ronny Graham
Country N/A
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory DeLuxe
Film Length 2,936 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm