THE GREAT DICTATOR (CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Plot: In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish 'Tomainian' disctator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.'s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin's famously impassioned speech.
• Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Rudolph Anders, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike, George Lynn, Wheeler Dryden, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Sig Arno, William Arnold, Joe Bordeaux, Don Brodie, Hans Conried, Gino Corrado, John Davidson, Max Davidson, Lew Davis, Francis Ernest Drake, Pat Flaherty, Bud Geary, Sam Harris, Eddie Hart, Leyland Hodgson, William Irving, Charles Irwin, Ethelreda Leopold, Torben Meyer, Jules Michelson, Bert Moorhouse, Nellie V. Nichols, Manuel París, Jack Perrin, Lucien Prival, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Tiny Sandford, Hans Schumm, Harry Semels, Charles Sullivan, Carl Voss, Leo White, Harry Wilson
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Runtime: 2:08
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, MK2 Diffusion, United Artists, Charles Chaplin Productions
• Media Format: Movie