Joe Dante on “To Be Or Not To Be”
May 9, 2012
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Jack Benny's greatest movie role, and no wonder--it was written especially for him by Ernst Lubitsch! Carole Lombard's swan song earned her some of her finest reviews posthumously, but the film itself, daringly dark for the time, was generally regarded as an insensitive and even troubling satire of wartime issues. The title refers not only to Shakespeare but the questionable existence of Poland. It has since been recognized as one of the director's finest efforts and a brilliantly cast comedy classic. Robert Stack's film debut. Remade in 1983 with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in the leads.
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Phil on TNT Jackson
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Watching this week's TFH ode to blaxploitation makes me want to grow an Afro!.
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hwy61rv on Darktown Strutters
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Thanks for the shout out, David. I look back at this trailer with great fondness...
noplot on Darktown Strutters
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It played a couple of years back on TCM underground, and "bizarre" does kind of nail it; it doesn't really make a lick of sense, but it's quite entertaining, and I still find myself humming "What You See is What You Get" frequently. The concept of cloning black leaders to undermine the black community's leadership was a precursor to the "Undercover Brother" film years later (though that was mind control drugs, not cloning exactly).
swac on Mutiny on the Bounty
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The people of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (where they still make boats) are still proud of their achievement in recreating the Bounty for this film, no matter what the reaction to the film might have been (I watched it a few years back and also enjoyed it quite a bit, I guess all the bad press at the time really coloured judgement to a degree). It was a sad day in this part of the world when the Bounty met its fate by sinking in Hurricane Sandy...
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