To Be or Not to Be probably would have been, in the hands of someone other than Ernst Lubitsch, an impossible contradiction in terms: a witty, delightfully satirical comedy set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Jack Benny, leading a troupe of ham actors in outsmarting the Gestapo and reducing them to ridiculous rubble, gives a beautifully-paced, more-than-typically animated performance, disguised along the way as a Gestapo agent, and Hamlet himself. Carole Lombard, as Benny's wife and fellow trouper, is both hilarious and ingenious in what was to be her last film role.