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(1940)
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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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Rated: 3.7 stars out of 5 from 39 ratings
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The Great Dictator - Disc 1
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The Great Dictator - Disc 2: Bonus Material
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BFI Classification:
Parental Guidance - general viewing but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
| Release Date: | 22/09/2003 |
| Production Year: | 1940 |
| Run Time: | 120 minutes |
| Aspect Ratio: | Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3 |
| Format: | Pal |
| Colour: | B & W |
Special Features:
- 'The Tramp And The Dictator': a documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft which parallels the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, born the same week of the same year
- 'The Production Filmed In Colour By Sydney Chaplin': recently discovered colour footage shot on the set of the film
- 'Charlie The Barber' (1919): Twenty years before 'The Great Dictator', a scene shot by Chaplin for his short, 'Sunnyside', but deleted from the finished film
- A scene from Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
- Scenes from the films in the Chaplin Collection
- Poster gallery
