19421940s FEATURE FILMS
DIRECTED BY: ERNST LUBITSCH
STARRING: CAROLE LOMBARD, JACK BENNY, ROBERT STACK
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
STARRING: CAROLE LOMBARD, JACK BENNY, ROBERT STACK
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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TITLE CARD: "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" PART 2 OF 2
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| 01:59:10 10.36 |
BLANK
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WOMAN IN FUR COAT AND EVENING GOWN TRIES TO LEAVE GRAND HOTEL TAKEN OVER BY NAZIS, PLAYED BY CAROLE LOMBARD, OFFICIALS WON'T LET HER LEAVE
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| 02:00:35 95.58 |
EXT OF THE THEATRE POLSKI, CUT TO MAN COVERING PRODUCER'S SIGN WITH A GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS SIGN
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| 02:00:41 101.42 |
MAN RIPS DOWN POLISH THEATER POSTER
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| 02:00:46 106.09 |
NAZI SOLDIERS IN THE SNOW AT NIGHT, THEY RUN TO SAFETY INTO GUARDED DOORWAY
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| 02:00:56 116.93 |
1930S CAR ON DARK SNOWY STREET AT NIGHT, CAR PULLS UP TO GUARDED DOORWAY, THE PROFESSOR /SPY ENTERS, NAZI SOLDIERS STAND AT ATTENTION
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| 02:01:17 137.13 |
MAN WITH GOATEE ENTERS GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS, OFFICIAL GREETS HIM WARMLY, LAUGHS AND MAKES JOKES ABOUT THE BRITISH
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| 02:01:59 179.5 |
SOLDIER MENTIONS GORING AND ENTERS DOOR
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| 02:02:10 190.91 |
ACTORS PRETENDING TO BE NAZIS PLOT IN ROOM AS THE SPY WAITS OUTSIDE, JACK BENNY PRETENDS TO BE A NAZI GENERAL, PRODUCER CALLS HIM A HAM
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| 02:02:34 214.36 |
SOLDIER INVITES PROFESSOR / SPY INTO THE ROOM, THEY SHAKE AND HEIL HITLER, MEN SIT DOWN AT THE DESK, JACK BENNY PLAYS THE ROLE OF EHRHARDT, THEY LAUGH, THE SPY HANDS OVER PILE OF PAPERS
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| 02:03:18 258.67 |
GERMAN GENERAL PLAYED BY JACK BENNY LOOKS OVER PAPERS WITH NAMES OF THE UNDERGROUND MEMBERS
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| 02:03:35 275.93 |
MS OF PROFESSOR WITH GOATEE
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| 02:03:39 279.55 |
MS OF JACK BENNY AS NAZI GENERAL, TALKING TO MAN AT DESK, CUT TO MS OF PROFESSOR
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| 02:04:03 303.59 |
NAZI GENERAL STANDS UP FROM RICH DESK AND EXITS ROOM WITH PAPERS
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| 02:04:09 309.52 |
MAN ENTERS DARK THEATER THROUGH SECRET DOOR AND MEETS WITH THE OTHER ACTORS DRESSED AS NAZIS
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| 02:04:31 331.12 |
JACK BENNY AS NAZI SITS DOWN WITH PROFESSOR / SPY AND HE STALLS FOR TIME, CUT TO MS, AWKWARD LAUGHING, NAZI LEAVES ROOM
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| 02:05:36 396.74 |
NAZI PLAYED BY BENNY ENTERS THEATER AND MEETS WITH GROUP, MAN GIVES HIM DIRECTIONS TO STEAL THE PAPERS, COMEDIC
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| 02:06:05 425.42 |
NAZI GENERAL PLAYED BY JACK BENNY RE-ENTERS ROOM WITH SPY AND STALLS FOR TIME AGAIN, ASKS THE SPY ABOUT THE WOMAN, CUTS TO MS OF THE MEN TALKING, THE SPY TELLS HIM ABOUT THE POLISH FLIER AND HIS SECRET MESSAGE TO THE WOMAN
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| 02:07:51 531.54 |
NAZI GENERAL (JACK BENNY) JUMPS UP AND RECITES "TO BE OR NOT TO BE', GETS ANGRY AND QUESTIONS THE SPY ABOUT THE POLISH FLIER
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| 02:08:28 568.1 |
MS OF QUIET SPY
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| 02:08:30 570.94 |
JACK BENNY AS NAZI GENERAL LAUGHS AS SPY GET SUSPICIOUS, CUTS TO MS OF NAZI AND SPY
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| 02:09:03 603.21 |
SPY GETS UP AND PULLS A GUN ON THE ACTOR PLAYING A NAZI
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| 02:09:30 630.85 |
MS OF SPY FACING JACK BENNY CHARACTER WITH HIS HANDS UP, CUT TO OVER THE SHOULDER OF THE SPY
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| 02:09:41 641.7 |
MS OF MAN HOLDING A GUN TO JACK BENNY CHARACTER IN ROOM WITH SWATSTIKAS, HE BACKS UP AND LEAVES THE ROOM, GUN SHOTS RING OUT AND BENNY THINKS HE WAS HIT, PATS HIS BACK
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| 02:10:11 671.04 |
ACTING TROUPE RUNS INTO ROOM AND DARK THEATER LOOKING FOR THE SPY, VARIOUS SHOTS, SEARCHING UNDER SEATS, SPOT LIGHT TURNS ON
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| 02:10:54 714.79 |
POV BALCONY FOLLOWING THE SPOTLIGHT MOVING AROUND THEATER INT, LIGHT STOPS ON MAN ON STAGE
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| 02:11:02 722.72 |
MAN POINTS AND YELLS "THERE HE IS!"
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| 02:11:03 723.49 |
RESISTANCE FIGHTERS RUSH THROUGH THE SEATS OF THE THEATER AND STOP WHEN THEY HEAR GUN SHOTS ON STAGE, CURTAIN RISES SLOWLY AND THE INJURED SPY SLOWLY DIES AS BLOOD RUNS OUT OF HIS GUT
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| 02:11:39 759.73 |
TRUCK IN HOTEL ROOM, PAN TO WOMAN IN SATIN EVENING GOWN GOING TO OPEN DOOR, SHE ADMITS A NAZI OFFICIAL IN UNIFORM, AWKWARD MOMENT AS HE PACES
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| 02:12:39 819.05 |
MAN WALKS UP GRAND STAIRCASE, JACK BENNY DISGUISED AS THE PROFESSOR
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| 02:12:56 836.31 |
PROFESSOR IMPOSTER ENTERS HOTEL SUITE WITH WAITING WOMAN AND NAZI OFFICIAL, WOMAN IS SHOCKED AS HER HUSBAND IS THE IMPOSTER
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| 02:13:21 861.38 |
THE MARRIED COUPLE (BENNY AND LOMBARD) PLAY THEIR ROLES, HE KISSES HER HAND
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| 02:13:40 880.11 |
IMPOSTER OFFERS NAZI OFFICIAL CHAMPAGNE AND CIGARETTES
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| 02:13:58 898.02 |
MS OF TALL NAZI GENERAL
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JACK BENNY AND CAROLE LOMBARD PLAYING THEIR ROLES, MS
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| 02:14:40 940.18 |
MS OF TALL NAZI IN UNIFORM
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| 02:14:41 941.46 |
JACK BENNY AS THE PROFESSOR IS SUMMONED BY NAZI OFFICIAL,
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| 02:15:25 985.01 |
COUPLE (LOMBARD AND BENNY) ENTERS BEDROOM OF HOTEL SUITE AND EMBRACE, THEY DISCUSS THE DANGEROUS SITUATION, MAN LEAVES
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| 02:16:31 1051.95 |
WS OF GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS WITH SWATSTIKAS
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| 02:16:44 1064.81 |
MS OF MAN DISGUISED AS THE PROFESSOR ENTERING THE ROOM, HE WALKS TO THE DESK OF THE NAZI COLONEL, THEY HEIL HITLER, THEY TAKE SIT AND TALK
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CUTS BETWEEN MS OF THE TWO MEN TALKING ABOUT THE FUHRER
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MS OF THE MEN TALKING, JOKING AND LAUGHING ABOUT THE COLONEL'S NICKNAME "CONCENTRATION CAMP EHRHARDT", COLONEL SERVES HIM A DRINK
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| 02:18:36 1176.71 |
JACK BENNY IN DISGUISE DRINKS BRANDY, CUT TO MS OF NAZI COLONEL TELLING JOKE
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| 02:18:50 1190.68 |
MEN JUMP UP, ONE IS ANGRY ABOUT THE JOKE, THEY HEIL HITLER AND THEN SHAKE HANDS
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| 02:19:25 1225.6 |
CUTS BETWEEN MS OF MEN TALKING, DISCUSSING THE PLAN, JACK BENNY CHARACTER IS VAGUE
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| 02:19:47 1247.31 |
MS OF MEN DISCUSSING THE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT AND LAUGH
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| 02:20:08 1268.91 |
NAZI SOLDIER ENTERS ROOM AND ANNOUNCES BAD NEWS, BUMBLING NAZI COLONEL AND JACK BENNY AS PROFESSOR REACT
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| 02:20:59 1319.63 |
MS OF MEN TALKING, CUT TO NAZI SOLDIER GULPING, HE IS DISMISSED
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NAZI SOLDIER LEAVES ROOM
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JACK BENNY CHARACTER WITH NERVOUS NAZI COLONEL, COLONEL INSULTS ACTING SKILL, THEY SHAKE HANDS AND PROFESSOR LEAVES
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| 02:22:45 1425.1 |
CU OF APPOINTMENT BOOK PAGE WITH NAMES
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| 02:22:56 1436.76 |
DOOR OPENS AND WOMAN IN FUR COAT ENTERS GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS, SHE SITS DOWN WITH THE COLONEL AND THEY DISCUSS
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| 02:23:20 1460.76 |
CUTS BETWEEN MS OF COLONEL AND WOMAN (CAROLE LOMBARD) HE GIVES HER BAD NEWS ABOUT THE DEATH OF THE REAL PROFESSOR, SHE RELAXES WHEN SHE REALIZES IT IS NOT HER HUSBAND, THE DISCUSS THE POLISH FLIER, PARACHUTIST
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| 02:24:27 1527.12 |
NAZI COLONEL ASKS WOMAN OUT AS SHE GETS UP TO LEAVE
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| 02:25:01 1561.41 |
WOMAN IN FUR COAT LEAVES GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS, NAZI SOLDIERS DISCUSS THE DEATH OF THE PROFESSOR, COLONEL ANSWERS PHONE FROM A DEAD MAN, HIS EYES OPEN UP WIDE
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| 02:25:33 1593.89 |
WOMAN (LOMBARD) AT GUARD DESK IN HOTEL LOBBY
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| 02:25:52 1612.51 |
POLISH PILOT (ROBERT STACK) SITS AND HOLDS HIS JAW, WOMAN RUSHES IN AND OUT
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| 02:26:03 1623.16 |
WOMAN WALKS THROUGH SNOWY BOMBED OUT RUINS
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| 02:26:12 1632.92 |
GROUP OF MEN PLAY CHESS IN HIDEOUT, POLISH UNDERGROUND, WOMAN RUSHES IN AND DOWN THE STAIRS, WEARING FUR BOOTS, SHE BRINGS TERRIBLE NEWS
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| 02:26:36 1656.77 |
THE MEN RUSH AROUND UPSET WOMAN (CAROLE LOMBARD), THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE AND COMFORT HER
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| 02:26:49 1669.14 |
INT OF NAZI HEADQUARTERS, MAN ENTERS AND MEETS WITH THE NAZI COLONEL AND OTHER OFFICIALS, THEY SHAKE HANDS
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| 02:27:30 1710.81 |
PROFESSOR (JACK BENNY) WAITS IN NEXT ROOM, IT TAKES HIM A MOMENT TO DISCOVER THE DEAD BODY SITTING IN A CHAIR, THE TWO PROFESSORS
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| 02:28:02 1742.31 |
MS OF JACK BENNY AS PROFESSOR LOOKING DOWN AT CHAIR, HE GOES THROUGH HIS POCKETS, CUT TO HAND HOLDING A FAKE BEARD
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| 02:28:16 1756.78 |
MS OF JACK BENNY AS PROFESSOR, HE GOES INTO BATHROOM, PAN AND ZOOM TO RAZOR ON BATHROOM SINK SHELF
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| 02:28:31 1771.18 |
NAZI PACES AND SMOKES AS NAZI SOLDIERS WAIT, PROFESSOR COMES TO THE DOOR, THEY ALL WALK INTO TO SEE THE DEAD MAN
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| 02:29:12 1812.67 |
JACK BENNY AS PROFESSOR IMPOSTER ENTERS ROOM WITH NAZI OFFICIALS
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| 02:29:19 1819.22 |
MS OF PROFESSOR IMPOSTER TALKING TO NAZI COLONEL, THEY SUSPECT HIM
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| 02:29:49 1849.38 |
JACK BENNY AS IMPOSTER INSPECTS DEAD MAN'S JACKET AS NAZIS WATCH, CUT TO MS
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| 02:30:30 1890.94 |
TALL NAZI ASKS THE IMPOSTER (JACK BENNY)GOOD QUESTIONS, THE COLONEL PRAISES HIM, THEY ALL LAUGH
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| 02:30:50 1910.34 |
ROOM OF NAZIS, JACK BENNY AS IMPOSTER PULLS THE BEARD OF THE DEAD MAN, THE COLONEL DOES AND IT COMES RIGHT OFF, CLEVER TWIST, THE NAZIS ARE SHOCKED AND COLONEL YELLS AT SOLDIER
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| 02:31:34 1954.31 |
COLONEL ORDERS THE MEN OUT OF THE ROOM
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| 02:31:40 1960.67 |
COLONEL AND PROFESSOR TALK, MS, HE ESCORTS HIM OUT AND THEY LAUGH
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| 02:32:12 1992.09 |
ACTORS PLAYING NAZIS ENTER ROOM AND EVERYONE HEIL HITLERS, THEY INSIST ON ARRESTING THE IMPOSTER AND RIP OFF HIS MUSTACHE, CUT TO CONFUSED COLONEL
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| 02:32:40 2020.8 |
NAZI OFFICIALS YELL AT COLONEL AND THEY TAKE THE MAN AWAY, JACK BENNY TURNS WITH ONE LAST JOKE
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| 02:33:11 2051.49 |
NAZI COLONEL IS DEFEATED, SITS AND HOLDS HIS HEAD, GETS ANGRY AND CALLS FOR HIS AIDE
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| 02:33:20 2060.88 |
POLISH UNDERGROUND, ACTING TROUPE IN HIDEOUT CHANGE OUT OF NAZI UNIFORMS, THEY ARGUE, ALL TALKING AT ONCE
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| 02:33:59 2099.25 |
POLISH ACTORS GATHER AND DISCUSS PLAN, CUT TO MS OF CAROLE LOMBARD AS ACTRESS
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| 02:34:29 2129.23 |
DIRECTOR ASKS BIT ACTOR TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT BUT DANGEROUS PART AT LAST
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| 02:34:58 2158.93 |
ACTORS IN SMALL DRESSING ROOM, CAROLE LOMBARD WATCHES JACK BENNY PUT ON MUSTACHE
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| 02:35:07 2167.46 |
MEN IN UNIFORM, WOMAN HUGS AND KISSES HER HUSBAND (LOMBARD AND BENNY) AS THEY LEAVE ON A DANGEROUS MISSION,
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| 02:36:01 2221.15 |
CROWDED THEATRE INT WITH NAZI SOLDIERS AND SWATSTIKA BANNERS HANGING
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| 02:36:06 2226.4 |
MANY SOLDIERS IN LOBBY OF THEATER, TALKING, NOISY
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| 02:36:09 2229.52 |
NAZI OFFICIALS WALK THROUGH THEATER, ACTORS DRESSED IN UNIFORMS, ONE ENTERS WOMANS LOUNGE
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| 02:36:37 2257.5 |
MAN IN UNIFORM GOES BEHIND DRESSING SCREEN AND HIDES
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| 02:36:40 2260.43 |
UNIFORMED MEN ENTER MENS LOUNGE
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| 02:37:08 2288.8 |
BELL RINGS IN LOBBY TO ANNOUCNE THE START OF SHOW, SOLDIERS WALK TO THEIR SEATS
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| 02:37:18 2298.31 |
GESTAPO SOLDIERS IN HELMETS RUN THOUGH THEATRE LOBBY
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| 02:37:28 2308.75 |
MILITARY GUARD STANDS IN FORMATION OUTSIDE THEATER, MOTORCYCLE ESCORT,1930S CARS ARRIVE AND PULL UP TO ENTRANCE, ALL HEIL HITLER
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| 02:37:46 2326.63 |
LINES OF SOLDIERS HEIL HITLER AND OPEN DOOR TO THEATRE
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| 02:37:51 2331.23 |
HIGH ANGLE DOWN FROM THEATER BOX, AUDIENCE OF SOLDIERS RISE AND STAND AT ATTENTION, HITLER CHARACTER WALKS OUT TO FRONT OF BOX AS ENTIRE THEATER HEILS THE FUHRER
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| 02:38:02 2342.25 |
NAZI OFFICIAL INSPECTS THE SOLDIERS, PAN ACROSS TO REST ROOM DOOR, LADIES ROOM, MAN EXITS AND TRIES TO RUN AND SOLDIERS SURROUND HIM, A DIVERSION
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| 02:38:32 2372.76 |
ACTORS DRESSED AS NAZIS PUSH THROUGH THE CROWD OF SOLDIERS, CUT TO MS OF HITLER CHARACTER AND SUSPECT IN CENTER OF SOLDIERS,
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| 02:38:54 2394.73 |
MS OF ACTOR PLAYING HITLER, CUT TO JEWISH MAN SURROUNDED BY NAZI SOLDIERS, RECITES FROM THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, SHYLOCK'S "...DO WE NOT BLEED.."
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| 02:39:29 2429.32 |
ACTORS AS NAZI SOLDIERS TAKE THE JEW AWAY
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| 02:39:40 2440.49 |
JACK BENNY AS NAZI SCOLDS THE REAL NAZI SOLDIERS, MAN PLAYING THE HITLER LEAVES THE THEATER AND ALL THE SOLDIERS FOLLOW
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| 02:40:14 2474.53 |
EXT OF THEATER AS HITLER AND MANY SOLDIERS LEAVE, CAR PULLS UP, SOLDIERS HEIL
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| 02:40:33 2494 |
BACK SEAT OF CAR AS ACTORS PLAYING HITLER AND NAZI OFFICIAL TALK, INTERRUPTED BY BOMBING
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| 02:40:47 2507.66 |
BACK WINDOW OF CAR ROLLS DOWN, CUT TO BOMBING OF RAILROAD STATION IN FLAMES, MEN IN CAR PRAISE THE UNDERGROUND
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| 02:41:00 2520.12 |
BACKSEAT OF CAR WITH ACTORS PLAYING HITLER AND NAZI, (JACK BENNY AND TOM DUGAN) TALK ABOUT THEIR FUTURE FAME, MAN REALIZES HIS FAKE MUSTACHE IS MISSING
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| 02:41:43 2563.24 |
WOMAN PACES IN HOTEL ROOM, ANSWERS DOOR AS NAZIS ENTER, THEY WANT TO DISCUSS HER ATTRACTION TO THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FALSE BEARD
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| 02:43:04 2644.95 |
COLONEL YELLS AT HIS AIDE AGAIN AND DISMISSES HIM, THE COLONEL SITS DOWN ON THE COUCH AND LAUGHS
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| 02:43:40 2680.1 |
MOTORCADE ON SNOWY STREETS OF CITY
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| 02:43:45 2685.06 |
WOMAN (LOMBARD) STRUGGLES WITH NAZI COLONEL
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| 02:44:01 2700.97 |
ACTOR DRESSED AS HITLER RUNS UP STAIRS AND ENTER APARTMENT, CUT TO SHOCKED WOMAN AND NAZI COLONEL, HE HEIL HITLER SALUTES
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| 02:44:13 2713 |
SHOCKED ACTOR DRESSED AS HITLER WALKS OUT OF THE ROOM
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| 02:44:19 2719.61 |
WOMAN (LOMBARD) RUNS OUT OF ROOM CALLING "MEIN FUHRER"
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| 02:44:30 2729.98 |
NAZI COLONEL IS DISAPPOINTED
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| 02:44:33 2733.68 |
COUPLE RUNS DOWN STAIRS AS GUN SHOT IS HEARD
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| 02:44:45 2745.5 |
NAZIS SALUTE AS PLANE TAKES OFF
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| 02:44:51 2751.21 |
COCKPIT OF GERMAN PLANE
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| 02:45:05 2765.66 |
PILOTS WALK OUT TO CABIN AND ACTOR (TOM DUGAN) DRESSED AS HITLER TELLS THEM TO JUMP OUT OF THE PLANE AND THEY DO
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| 02:45:15 2775.73 |
AIRPLANE INTERIOR, MEN CONGRATULATE THEMSELVES
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| 02:45:21 2781.85 |
SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE WITH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS SHOOTING
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| 02:45:29 2789.66 |
PARACHUTER LANDS IN PILE OF HAY
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| 02:45:36 2796.62 |
SCOTTISH FARMERS WITH PITCHFORKS
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| 02:45:38 2798.51 |
MAN CLIMBS OUT OF PARACHUTE, DRESSED LIKE HITLER (TOM DUGAN)
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| 02:45:44 2804.86 |
MS OF SHOCKED SCOTTISH FARMERS WITH PITCH FORKS "FIRST IT WAS HESS, NOW IT'S HIM" JOKE
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| 02:45:50 2810.56 |
POLISH ACTING TROUPE DRESSED AS NAZIS ARE INTERVIEWED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE PRESS, JACK BENNY CHARACTER THANKS HIS CAST MEMBERS,
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| 02:46:13 2832.97 |
REPORTERS
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| 02:46:17 2837.37 |
MS OF COUPLE (LOMBARD AND BENNY) "HE WANTS TO PLAY HAMLET"
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| 02:46:26 2846.79 |
THEATRE INT, HAMLET (PLAYED BY JACK BENNY) WALKS OUT ON STAGE
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| 02:46:58 2878.3 |
PAN OF AUDIENCE, POV ACTOR ON STAGE, PILOT IN AUDIENCE (ROBERT STACK)
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| 02:47:05 2885.62 |
MS OF JACK BENNY AS HAMLET RECITING HIS SOLILOQUY "TO BE OR NOT TO BE", CUT TO MAN GETTING OUT OF HIS SEAT
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| 02:47:30 2910.01 |
BLANK, THE END
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CREDITS
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