The Great Dictator (1940)

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The Great Dictator

ORIGINAL TITLE

The Great Dictator

YEAR

1940

RUNNING TIME

128 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Charles Chaplin

SCREENWRITER

Charles Chaplin

COMPOSER

Charles Chaplin & Meredith Willson

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Rollie Totheroh & Karl Struss (B&W)

CAST

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Carter De Haven, Grace Hayle, Maurice Moscovitch, Billy Gilbert

STUDIO/PRODUCER

United Artists

AWARDS

1940: 5 Nominations for Oscar: Movie, Actor (Chaplin), Supporting Actor (Oakie), OST, Screenplay

GENRE

Comedy | Satire. Nazism. II World War

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

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 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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