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Everybody knows Charlie Chaplin, his Tramp with the oversized trousers, the tight jacket, black bowler hat and bamboo walking cane is one of the icons of the cinema of the 20th century, but how many people, especially the young ones, have actually seen one of his films? Chaplin’s filmography ... Read review

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Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator [DVD] [1940]

Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator [DVD] [1940]

Release Date: 2003-11-17, Rating Universal, suitable for all,


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Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator [VHS] [1940]

Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator [VHS] [1940]

The Great Dictatorwas Charles Chaplin's first fully talking picture, a scathing comic ... more

assault on Adolf Hitler, which these days will
mostly play like brilliant slapstick. But in 1940,
with America still neutral, it was the boldest
anti-Nazi statement Hollywood had then put on
screen. The thin plot doesn't matter, being just a
peg for writer-director Chaplin's almost
consistently inventive and hilarious set-pieces
featuring himself in the duel roles of Adenoid
Hynkel, the ludicrous anti-Semitic Dictator of
Tomania, and an innocent Jewish barber who happens
to be a Tomanian hero of the Great War. In the
latter role he affectionately spins a variation on
his beloved Tramp character while briefly
romancing a lacklustre Paulette Goddard, costar of
his equally satiricalModern Times(1936).Yet it's
as Hynkel/Hitler that Chaplin really shines, from
a side-splitting opening speech to someDuck
Soup-style madness with rival leader Napaloni,
played with flamboyant swagger by Jack Oakie.
While the finale, a clarion call for a brave new
world united by science and technological progress
that seems to emanate straight from 1936'sThings
to Come, may jar, the comedic approach to a deadly
serious subject has proved lastingly influential,
fromDr Strangelove(1964) toLife is
Beautiful(1997).On the DVDThe Great Dictatoris
presented in the original 4:3 black and white with
strong, clear mono sound and a picture so sharp
and detailed that, bar a few very minor instances
of damage, the film could have been shot
yesterday. Also included are French and Italian
dubbed versions and an English Dolby Digital 5.1
version of the soundtrack, which is best avoided.
The disc features multiple subtitle options,
including English for hard of hearing.Disc Two
begins with a superb 55-minute documentary,
directed by film historian Kevin Brownlow and
Michael Kloft, narrated by Kenneth Branagh and
coproduced by the BBC.The Tramp and the
Dictatorgoes seriously in-depth to explore the
parallels between the world's most loved and hated
men, drawing on many interviews and remarkable
rare footage, including colour sequences of the
making ofThe Great Dictatorshot by
Chaplin'sbrother, Sydney. Next comes the complete
25 minutes of that home-movie footage, including
coverage of the original abandoned ending, and a
seven-minute deleted scene fromSunnyside(1918),
which inspired the barber scene. Finally there is
a poster gallery and a scene fromMonsieur
Verdoux(1947) concerning the rise of Hitler and
fascism. Marvellous stuff, though a commentary
could have added considerably to the already
remarkable silent colour material. --Gary S Dalkin


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Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin, Movie Poster 1940 (30x40cm Art Print)

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Heil Hynkel !

Advantages: a masterpiece
Disadvantages: none

Everybody knows Charlie Chaplin, his Tramp with the oversized trousers, the tight jacket, black bowler hat and bamboo walking cane is one of the icons of the cinema of the 20th century, but how many people, especially the young ones, have actually seen one of his films? Chaplin’s filmography lists 80 films, The Great Dictator (1940) was his first all-talking, all-sound film, his most highly praised and commercially his most successful.

...barber and Adenoid Hynkel, the fascist dictator of Tomania, who are the spitting images of each other; because of misunderstandings they are taken for each other and the Jewish barber has to deliver a political speech in Hynkel’s place. This is the plot in a nutshell but what do we understand from these few lines? Nothing, I’m afraid.

The film begins during WW1, an unnamed Jewish barber, a private in the army of the fictional nation ... more

MALU 26.07.2007 (26.07.2007)
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The Great Dictator

Advantages: Ingenius parody of Hitler and Mussolini
Disadvantages: Half of it is just another Tramp movie

Charlie Chaplin is probably the most well known movie actor ever, who progressed from his ten to fifteen minute short films, such as 'The Champion' (1915), to larger works such as 'Modern Times' (1936) and this, 'The Great Dictator' (1940). The film follows two seperate storylines. The first is of the Dictator of Tomania, Adenoid Hynkel (Chaplin), who is planning to conquer the world; while the other is about the Dictator's double, a Jewish barber ...
...up to find that he has to live in the ghetto and that Hynkel's soldiers prowl the streets. Meanwhile, Hynkel has decided to go one further than his competetive 'friend' Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, by invading Bacteria. The film is obviously a parody of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis with Napaloni representing Mussolini. Of course, in 1940, America had yet to enter WWII (they did so in 1941 due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), and at the ...

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