| Great Dictator, The | |||||
| Warner Bros. (1940) | |||||
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| Charles Chaplin | Adenoid Hynkel (dictator of Tomania)/A Jewish barber | |
| Jack Oakie | Napaloni (dictator of Bacteria) | |
| Reginald Gardiner | Commander Schultz | |
| Henry Daniell | Garbitsch | |
| Billy Gilbert | Field Marshal Herring | |
| Grace Hayle | Madame Napaloni | |
| Carter DeHaven | Bacterian ambassador (as Carter De Haven) | |
| Paulette Goddard | Hannah | |
| Maurice Moscovitch | Mr. Jaeckel | |
| Emma Dunn | Mrs. Jaeckel | |
| Maurice Moscovich | ||
| Rudolph Anders | ||
| Chester Conklin | ||
| Eddie Dunn |
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| Producer | Charlie Chaplin
Charles Chaplin Carter DeHaven |
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| Writer | Charles Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin |
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| Cinematography | Karl Struss
Roland Totheroh |
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| Musician | Charles Chaplin
Meredith Willson |
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The Chaplin Collection 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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