Film Summary CLXXXII (To be or not to be)



Well if one must be Hitler than what a better bee than any other B or at least so says the man that has to play him. Tom Dugan making the most convincing looking Hitler in probably any film ever made at a time when Hitler was still well alive.


One of the earliest movies to spoof the Nazis alongside chaplain's dictator film. although unlike chaplain this movie actually useed the Nazis there not just the theoretical group that resembles them. It also despite being a comedy shows the grimness and destruction of War and the misery everyone else is living under. It's also more of a spy drama than an actual comedy, only the beginning and end are comedic with little bits of dialogue littered along with what is purposely ham-fisted acting.


So you've got a bunch of actors pretending to be Nazis, to go after a man who's going to destroy the underground but is actually going to work for the Nazis but the people dressed up as the Nazis are actually the underground and not the guy who's pretending to be the underground who's actually with Nazis and then there's an affer with some weird woman and a couple jokes about Hitler being a piece of cheese.

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