The Great Dictator
1941
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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war political satire black comedy written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films.
- $2.2 million
- Charlie Chaplin, Meredith Willson
- Charlie Chaplin
- October 15, 1940 (New York City)
Apr 12, 2024 · 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.
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Chaplin also received Academy Award nominations in 1940 for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for The Great Dictator. In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush , taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score.
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After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator...
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May 24, 2011 · In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him.
Charlie Chaplin's 1940 comedy The Great Dictator is perhaps the most successful propaganda film ever made. At a time when isolationist and pro-German influences in Washington were warning Hollywood not to provoke Adolf Hitler, the independent Chaplin directly attacked the Füher and drew attention to the oppression of Jews in the European Ghettos.
Powered by JustWatch. Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940) came some 12 years after the introduction of sound, but it was Chaplin's first all-talking picture, and the first in which we heard the Little Tramp speak. The dialog turned out to be his last words; Chaplin never used the Tramp character again after this film.
