THE GREAT DICTATOR (CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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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 'Tomanian' dictator 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, John Alban, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Sig Arno, William Arnold, Walter Bacon, Brandon Beach, Joe Bordeaux, Chet Brandenburg, Don Brodie, James Carlisle, Tom Coleman, Hans Conried, Gino Corrado, Oliver Cross, John Davidson, Max Davidson, Lew Davis, Francis Ernest Drake, Pat Flaherty, Bud Geary, Jack Gordon, Herschel Graham, Sam Harris, Eddie Hart, Leyland Hodgson, William Irving, Charles Irwin, Ethelreda Leopold, Clyde McLeod, Russell Meeker, Torben Meyer, Jules Michelson, Bert Moorhouse, George Nardelli, Nellie V. Nichols, Manuel París, Jack Perrin, Alexander Pollard, Lucien Prival, John Rice, Cyril Ring, Wyn Ritchie Evans, Henry Roquemore, Tiny Sandford, Francesca Santoro, Hans Schumm, Harry Semels, Count Stefenelli, Bert Stevens, Charles Sullivan, Carl Voss, Leonard Walker, Leo White, Harry Wilson, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh, Willard Nico, Harold Rice, Meredith Willson, J. Russell Spencer
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Runtime: 2:05
• Company: Charles Chaplin Productions, One Production Company, United Artists, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie