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Great Dictator, The (Supplement Disc) (1940)
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| Starring: |
Charlie Chaplin,
Reginald Gardiner,
Billy Gilbert,
Paulette Goddard,
Maurice Moscovich,
Jack Oakie
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| Director:
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Charlie Chaplin
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Comedy,
Classics,
Documentary
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Warner Bros.
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English,Spanish,French,Portuguese,Chinese,Korean,Thai
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120 mins
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The Chaplin Collection
Come heil or high water, Charles Chaplin is in the fight! And the result is a celebrated classic honored in 2000 as one of the American Film Institute's Top- 100 American Comedies.
The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuhrer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie. Puns, sight gags and slapstick abound as Chaplin skewers fascism, balancing his attack with poignant scenes of a ghetto in the clutches of storm-trooping terror. Immortal bits include Hynkel's besotted dance with a globe, the upside-down flight and Hynkel and a Mussolini-like Jack Oakie madly cranking their barber chairs higher and higher. Great comedy meets great filmmaking passion in The Great Dictator.
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