Carole Lombard is absolutely stunning in her final role before her tragic plane crash death
It’s both a socially and politically important movie and a great comedy- not hard to see how it’s rated so high by so many critics but it’s just not nearly one of the best directed movies of all-time
There are a ton of hilarious scenes but my favorite might be Robert Stack leaving right in Benny’s Hamlet soliloquy and that ongoing joke
Very detailed and intelligent narrative
Blends drama horror of WW2/Hitler/Nazi’s and comedy with such grace
The scenes with Ruman and Benny are great as well
Certainly Benny took a lot from Groucho Marx
There are some small editing flubs but not something that would demit my evaluation on it’s own
I can see some influences here on Inglourious Basterds (Nazis in a theatre in the finale for one)
Shakespeare is woven throughout with both hamlet and Shylock in merchant of venice
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