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The Great Dictator|Charles Chaplin
The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard
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Overview

Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler. Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel's balletic "pas de deux" with a globe, and a cream cake fight between Hynkel and Napoloni, the dictator of Bacteria.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Charles Chaplin - Director
Charlie Chaplin - Director
Charles Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Jack Oakie
Carter DeHaven
Reginald Gardiner
Henry Daniell
Billy Gilbert
Carter DeHaven [Sr.]
Maurice Moscovitch

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Color Format: B&W
  • UPC: 715515080613
  • Genre: COMEDIES
  • Rating: G (MPAA)
  • Release Date: May 2011

Movie Reviews

Notes:
THE GREAT DICTATOR was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997. Copyright 1940 Charles Chaplin Film Corporation. Renewed 1968 The Roy Export Company Establishment.

Reviews:
"[W]ith several immaculately realised sequences of pure visual comedy of which the globe-dance is merely the most iconic." - 06/01/2010 Sight and Sound Critic

BAM Customer Reviews