Real life husband and wife Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft play husband and wife Frederick and Anna Bronski. They are performers in their own Polish theater when WWII invade. He's jealous of her flirtiness. She's tired of his bossiness. Lt. Andre Sobinski (Tim Matheson) is her secret admirer. He's a bomber pilot who escapes to Britain to keep fighting the war. Prof. Siletski (Jose Ferrer) is a double agent who is on his way back to Poland to expose the Polish resistance and Sobinski is sent back to intercept him. Col. Erhardt (Charles Durning) is the confused Nazi who takes over the Bronski home. Bronski impersonates Erhardt and then Siletski in order to stop the resistance from falling into Nazi hands.
It's not the usual Mel Brooks parody. He's not writing this one but there are lots of Brooks touches. He gets to take some more swipes at the Nazis. There is a compelling thrilling drama at the center of this but Brooks is always there to poke fun at it. It's a spy caper thriller that has lots of slapstick and farce injected into it.
It's not the usual Mel Brooks parody. He's not writing this one but there are lots of Brooks touches. He gets to take some more swipes at the Nazis. There is a compelling thrilling drama at the center of this but Brooks is always there to poke fun at it. It's a spy caper thriller that has lots of slapstick and farce injected into it.