Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator (DVD)

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Production Year: 1940 - Comedy - Director: Charlie Chaplin - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Emma Dunn, Carter DeHaven, Bernard Gorcey, Grace Hayle, Hank Mann, Maurice Moscovich, Paul Weigel more

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Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that...
more...it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler. Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel's balletic "pas de deux" with a globe, and a cream cake fight between Hynkel and Napoloni, the dictator of Bacteria.





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Heil Hynkel !
Review of Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator (DVD) by MALU

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. Here Chaplin ... Read review

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Review of Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator (DVD) by jbsabbath

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 ... Read review

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