| Description |
2 videodiscs (DVD)(120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Chaplin collection.
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| System Details |
DVD ; dual-layer format ; Dolby digital 5.1 ; Dolby mono. |
| Language |
In English, French, and Spanish; subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Korean. |
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Closed-captioned. |
| Cast |
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert. |
| Credits |
Directors of photography, Karl Strauss, Roland Totheroh; film editor, William Nico; musical direction, Meredith Willson. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. |
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Additional material includes The tramp and the dictator, a documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft (55 min.), the production filmed in color by Sydney Chaplin (25 min.), a seven-minute sequence shot in 1918 for Sunnyside that inspired the famous barber scene in The Great Dictator (7 min.), scene from Monsieur Verdoux (3 min.), scenes from films in the Chaplin collection (23 min.), poster gallery. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: G. |
| Summary |
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers. |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drama.
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Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Drama.
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Dictators -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Dictators -- Parodies, imitations, etc. -- Videodiscs.
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Fascism -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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National socialism -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Antisemitism -- Germany -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Added Author |
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
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Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990.
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Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978.
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Gardiner, Reginald, 1903-1980.
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| ISBN |
0790771675 |
| Music No. |
37944 Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions |
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