“What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland.”
One of the most subversive, entertaining films of the 1940s, To Be or Not to Be, directed by the wonderful Ernst Lubitsch, is a masterwork of satirical, comedic madness. To Be stars Jack Benny in what is arguably the best role of his career, as Josef Tura, the hammier part of a Polish husband-and-wife acting…