The Great Dictator (1940)

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/ 10
18 User Ratings
2h 5m
Running Time

October 15, 1940
Release Date

The Great Dictator (1940)

5
/ 10
18 User Ratings
2h 5m
Running Time

October 15, 1940
Release Date

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Plot.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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Cast & Crew.

Francis Ernest Drake

Francis Ernest Drake

Storm Trooper (uncredited)

Francesca Santoro

Francesca Santoro

Aggie (uncredited)

Leonard Walker

Leonard Walker

Conductor (uncredited)

Finn Zirzow

Finn Zirzow

Soldier (uncredited)

Wyn Ritchie Evans

Wyn Ritchie Evans

Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

James Carlisle

James Carlisle

Ball Guest (uncredited)

Oliver Cross

Oliver Cross

Ball Guest (uncredited)

Herschel Graham

Herschel Graham

Soldier (uncredited)

William Bogdanoff

William Bogdanoff

Construction Foreman

Frank Testera

Frank Testera

Electrician

Kathleen Pryor

Kathleen Pryor

Production Secretary

Details.

Release Date
October 15, 1940

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 5m

Content Rating
NR

Budget
$2,000,000

Box Office
$11,000,000

Filming Locations
Malibu · California · Los Angeles, United States

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

dictator
hairdresser
amnesia
fascism
world war ii
jewish ghetto
world war i
nazi
propaganda
national socialism
national socialist party
speech
satire
fictitious country
barbershop
black and white
anti war

Wiki.

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring, British filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.

Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of the German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, as well as fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. At the time of its first release, the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany and neutral during what were the early days of World War II. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber.

The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful film. Modern critics have praised it as a historically significant film, one of the greatest comedy films ever made and an important work of satire. In 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Great Dictator was nominated for five Academy Awards – Outstanding Production, Best Actor, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Best Supporting Actor for Jack Oakie, and Best Music (Original Score).

In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he could not have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at that time.

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