GREAT DICTATOR, THE

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Rudolph Anders, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike, George Lynn, Wheeler Dryden, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Sig Arno, William Arnold, Joe Bordeaux, Don Brodie, Hans Conried, Gino Corrado, John Davidson, Max Davidson, Lew Davis, Francis Ernest Drake, Pat Flaherty, Bud Geary, Sam Harris, Eddie Hart, Leyland Hodgson, William Irving, Charles Irwin, Ethelreda Leopold, Torben Meyer, Jules Michelson, Bert Moorhouse, Nellie V. Nichols, Manuel París, Jack Perrin, Lucien Prival, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Tiny Sandford, Hans Schumm, Harry Semels, Charles Sullivan, Carl Voss, Leo White, Harry Wilson
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Runtime: 2:04
• Company: Imagine Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie