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Charlie Chaplin: Great Dictator
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Product Details
- Starring: Rudolph Anders, Chester Conklin, Henry Daniell, Carter DeHaven, Eddie Dunn
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- Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9786302561852
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- Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
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- ISBN: 630256185X
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- Label: 20th Century Fox
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- Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: 20th Century Fox
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- Release Date: 1992-11-05
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- Studio: 20th Century Fox
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1940-10-15
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- Title: Charlie Chaplin: Great Dictator
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- UPC: 086162300837
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Product Description: Since Adolf Hitler had the audacity to borrow his mustache from the most famous celebrity in the world--Charlie Chaplin--it meant Hitler was fair game for Chaplin's comedy. (Strangely, the two men were born within four days of each other.) The Great Dictator, conceived in the late thirties but not released until 1940, when Hitler's war was raging across Europe, is the film that skewered the tyrant. Chaplin plays both Adenoid Hynkel, the power-mad ruler of Tomania, and a humble Jewish barber suffering under the dictator's rule. Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's wife at the time, plays the barber's beloved; and the rotund comedian Jack Oakie turns in a weirdly accurate burlesque of Mussolini, as a bellowing fellow dictator named Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria. Chaplin himself hits one of his highest moments in the amazing sequence where he performs a dance of love with a large inflated globe of the world. Never has the hunger for world domination been more rhapsodically expressed. The slapstick is swift and sharp, but it was not enough for Chaplin. He ends the film with the barber's six-minute speech calling for peace and prophesying a hopeful future for troubled mankind. Some critics have always felt the monologue was out of place, but the lyricism and sheer humanity of it are still stirring. This was the last appearance of Chaplin's Little Tramp character, and not coincidentally it was his first all-talking picture. --Robert Horton
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Customer Reviews
A work of Genius!
This is a work of the genial Chaplin at his best.
A big pleasure to watch this old movie that has lot of controversial.
Did you know that the same Adolf Hitler watched this movie 3 times and liked a lot even if it was a parody of its regime of doom?
A movie for collectors without any doubt.
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A Must Have Classic Comedy Film---Better than anything produced today
Possibly Charlie Chaplin's best work ever--his Hitleresque character is beyond belief, and the "Master of the World" ballet is one every comedy enthusiast should see. This film is also filled with other stars from Paulette Goddard to Reginald Gardner; it has it all and would be an asset to any body's collection.
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A Great Great Dictator
Really Enjoyable! Takes me back sixty years to when I First saw it. Why doesn't the description mention Jack Oakie; The pefect Il Duce?
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a brilliantly orchestrated dark dramedy (drama/comedy).....
I first saw THE GREAT DICTATOR when I was in grade school, around the time that SCHINDLER'S LIST was released, a far more sober look at the devestating effects of the Holocaust on countless Jews and gentiles alike, as well as the work of Oskar Schindler during that time of such unrest and profound social injustice. THE GREAT DICTATOR is a social satire, directed by and starring "The Little Tramp", himself, Mr. Charles Chaplin. I know it sounds really strange, gruesome and even inappropriate to create a film that is centered on poking fun at the evil commited by the Third Reich and the effect of Hitler, the Nazi regime and how that resulted in the death, torture, and imprisonment of droves of Jews, Gypsies, Jewish sympathizers, Gentiles and many others. I ask that you suspend your imagination and give this film a try anyway.
Charlie Chaplin plays two very opposite men. One is Adenoid Hynkel, a swarthy and short-tempered fascist dictator, based on none other than Adolf Hitler himself. The other man is a very good and courageous Jewish barber who must face the wrath that Hynkel inflicts on his ghetto. What's more, Hynkel is alligned with Benzino Napoloni (Jackie Oakie), an Italian fascist dictator (based on Mussolini). Together, they hope to completely drive out Jews and other groups they feel are standing in the way of the master race.
This film was Chaplin's first "talkie," is brilliant, thoughtful, humorous and provocative. I reccomend that you give this one a try. You won't be sorry and it will really leave you thinking hard about the state of the world when you are done watching it.
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the best parody about the führer :-)
i recommend this classic movie highly ... it is available at last!!! great special edition. if we germans would have seen this movie in the thirties history would have taken another course ... hopefully!
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