It's brilliant; it was Carole Lombard's last role and the film that introduced me to Jack ". . . I'm thinking it over!" Benny. Especially considering when it was made; unlike in the 1983 Mel Brooks remake, there was no guarantee that the wider threat of Nazism could be neutralized as easily (and as hilariously) as the particular Nazis that the theatrical company of Josef and Maria Tura, husband-and-wife Shakespeareans and upstagers extraordinaire, here take on.
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It's brilliant; it was Carole Lombard's last role and the film that introduced me to Jack ". . . I'm thinking it over!" Benny. Especially considering when it was made; unlike in the 1983 Mel Brooks remake, there was no guarantee that the wider threat of Nazism could be neutralized as easily (and as hilariously) as the particular Nazis that the theatrical company of Josef and Maria Tura, husband-and-wife Shakespeareans and upstagers extraordinaire, here take on.