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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-fascist, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.
Feb 5, 2021 · Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin skewered the Nazis in his satire The Great Dictator. Nicholas Barber looks at how the film has wider relevance today. It's hardly surprising that Charlie...
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The Great Dictator, American comedy film, released in 1940, that Charlie Chaplin both acted in and directed. Satirizing Adolf Hitler and Nazism and condemning anti-Semitism, it was Chaplin’s most successful film at the box office.
Chaplin portrayed a Jewish barber who is mistaken for a tyrannical dictator. He plays up the charade and ultimately gives a speech in which he calls for peace and compassion. Chaplin, in a dual role, also played the fascist dictator, modeled after Hitler.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director and writer: Charlie Chaplin
•Music: Meredith Willson
•Running time: 124 minutes
•Charlie Chaplin (Adenoid Hynkel/Jewish Barber)
•Paulette Goddard (Hannah)
•Jack Oakie (Benzini Napoloni)
•Reginald Gardner (Commander Schulz)
•Henry Daniell (Garbitsch)
•Billy Gilbert (Herring)
•Lead actor (Charles Chaplin)
•Supporting actor (Jack Oakie)
•Picture
•Score
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Mar 10, 2016 · • Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/TheChaplinFilms• Get it on iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesGreatDictatorSpeech• "We think too much and feel too little....
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Chaplin spent many months drafting and re-writing the speech for the end of the film, a call for peace from the barber who has been mistaken for Hynkel. Many people criticized the speech, and thought it was superfluous to the film. Others found it uplifting.
Sep 27, 2007 · “The Great Dictator” was the last time Charlie Chaplin played a little man with a mustache. In 1938, the world’s most famous movie star began to prepare a film about the monster of the 20th century.
May 24, 2011 · Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.
