Actors: Mel Brooks, Anne
Bancroft; Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, José Ferrer
Rating: 6 out of 10, The
next in my Mel Brooks journey and a little different than his earlier
efforts. This is more a straight comedy
without the usual number of gags and slapstick.
Any movie with Christopher Lloyd playing a part straight much less a Nazi
officer is fertile ground – its good he stuck to comedy after this. The movie is worth watching to see Bancroft and
Brooks (real life husband and wife) together.
They play a pair of ham actors in 1939 Warsaw just as the Germans stop
by. Funny at times but missing the manic
fun of his earlier work.
MVP: Bancroft as the
philandering Anna Bronski
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