In Collection
#11
Seen It:
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#11
Seen It:
Yes
France / English
| Paulette Goddard | |
| Maurice Moscovich | |
| Reginald Gardiner | |
| Billy Gilbert | |
| Jack Oakie |
| Director | Serge Toubiana |
| Producer | Charlie Chaplin |
| Writer | Charlie Chaplin |
Come heil or high water, Charles Chaplin is in the fight! And the result is a celebrated classic honored in 2000 as one of the American Film Institute's Top- 100 American Comedies.
The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuhrer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie. Puns, sight gags and slapstick abound as Chaplin skewers fascism, balancing his attack with poignant scenes of a ghetto in the clutches of storm-trooping terror. Immortal bits include Hynkel's besotted dance with a globe, the upside-down flight and Hynkel and a Mussolini-like Jack Oakie madly cranking their barber chairs higher and higher. Great comedy meets great filmmaking passion in The Great Dictator.
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Features
| Disc 1: | All-New Digital Transfer Interactive Menus Scene Access The Tramp and the Dictator - Documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft, which parallels thelives of Chaplin and Hitler, born the same week of the same year. Color Behind-the-Scenes Footage Charlie The Barber - Twenty years before The Great Dictator, a scene shot by Chaplin for his short, Sunnyside, but deleted fromt he finished film. Scene from Monsier Verdoux(1947) Scenes from films in the Chaplin Collection Poster Gallery |