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To Be or Not to Be
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CastCarole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, Charles Halton, George Lynn, Henry Victor, Maude Eburne, Halliwell Hobbes, Miles Mander
Year released1942
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Narrator: “The man with the little mustache -- “Adolf Hitler.”
Actor Bronski appears as Hitler. (0:02)
Nazi officers repeat, “Heil Hitler.”
Young Wilhelm joins in before he says, “Hitler’s going to end up as a piece of cheese.”
Actor Rawitch: “... I have to wait and wait to be driven out of my mood...”
Producer Dobosh tells actor Maria Tura, ”You must be out of your mind.”
Makeup artist: “But so is Hitler.”
Dobosh: ”I just can't smell Hitler in him.”
Rawitch: ”...I know I look like Hitler...” (0:03)
Narrator: “ and that's how I Adolf Hitler came to Warsaw in August 1939.” (0:07)
Bronski tells actor Greenberg, “When Dobosh said to me, ‘Bronski, you're going to play Hitler’...” (0:08)
Another actor tells Greenberg, referring to a radio broadcast, “Hitler's speaking to the Reichstag.”
Dr. Voyowski tells the other, referring to the play, ”It might offend Hitler.” (0:16)
Pilot Lt. Stanislav Sobinski tells Maria, “... that were mad about each other.” (0:19)
Portrait of Hitler
Narrator: “Down with Hitler.” (0:24)
Sobinski tells the others, referring to Prof. Siletsky, “He's going to Berlin to call on Hitler.”
Siletsky: ”I certainly hope that Hitler doesn't call on me.” (0:25)
Siletsky tells Maria, “And before the evening is over, I'm sure you'll say, ‘Heil Hitler’.” (0:41)
Maria: “Heil Hitler.”
Siletsky: ”Heil HItler.”
Capt. Muhm: “Heil Hitler.”
Siletsky: “Heil Hitler.” (0:48)
Muhm tells Stiletsky, referring to Rawitch, “He’s Goering’s brother-in-law.” (0:52)
More “Heil HItlers” too numerous to include throughout the remainder of the film.
Joseph Tura tells Nazi Col. Ehrhardt, “And I don't believe that Adolf Hitler will go down in history as a delicatessen.” (1:09)
Dobosh tells Rawitch, “You idiot, you shut up.” (1:17)
Ehrhardt asks Rawitch (now as a Gestapo officer) “Are you crazy?” (1:23)
Dobosh tells the others, “Hitler, of course, will be sitting in the Royal box tonight.”
“There'll be soldiers in the corridor guarding Hitler's box.” (1:25)
Bronski tells Joseph, “Oh, nothing, but I'm such a nervous wreck, I'm imagining things.”
Joseph: “Are you crazy?” (1:32)
Ehrhardt places his hand on a holster. After the door closes, we hear a gunshot, a groan, and a body fall to the floor. (1:35)
Reference in Spaceballs