East Baton Rouge Parish Library

To be or not to be, Alexander Korda presents ; an Ernst Lubitsch production ; original story by Melchior Lengyel ; screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer ; released through United Artists ; produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat. Disc 2: Pinkus's shoe palace (1916 film starring Ernst Lubitsch as a slapstick Jewish sterotype); Lubitsch le patron (a 2010 French documentary written by film scholar N.T. Binh and directed by Jean-Jacques Bernard, traces the career of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch); The Screen Guild Theater (two episodes of the radio anthology series: Variety (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1943)). Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1942 New York Times op-edition by LubitschVideorecording

Midwest Tape

multicolored

monaural

Production designed by Vincent Korda ; photographed by Rudolph Maté ; musical score by Werner R. Heymann ; interior decoration, Julia Heron ; costumes, Irene ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer

other

Two-DVD special edition.

9781604657616

videodisc

Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan

2 videodiscs (99 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)854576889ocn854576889OCoLC

DVD; NTSC; Region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; PCM mono

715515109017

CC2298D -- The Criterion Collection

DVD