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Charles Chaplin. 1941 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Jack Oakie. 1941 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Charles Chaplin. 1941 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Score.
The Great Dictator. 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. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films ...
Apr 12, 2024 · The Great Dictator was Chaplin’s first feature film with full sound. When the movie was released in 1940, the United States was still not officially at war with Nazi Germany. The names of the characters mock the fascist leaders of the day, including “Adenoid Hynkel,” standing in for Hitler, and ministers “Garbitsch” and “Herring ...
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The Great Dictator: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Charles Chaplin
- 1941-03-07
Full awards and nominations of The Great Dictator. Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner ... Comedy In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so much like Hynkel that he could be his twin.
May 24, 2011 · The Great Dictator. 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 ...
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Background. The Great Dictator (1940) is director/actor Charlie Chaplin's first full all-talking ("talkie" with dialogue) picture (in a film similar to the Marx Brothers' anti-war comedy Duck Soup (1933)) in which he delivered spoken lines (a full 13 years after the advent of sound in the movies). It was his last film with the Little Tramp ...
