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Great Dictator Windowboxed DVD

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Release Date: 4/11/2000
Original Release: 1940
Format: DVD
Length: 125 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable)
UPC: 014381918328
Studio: Image Entertainment, Inc.

Directed by:

Charlie Chaplin, Charles Spencer Chaplin

Featuring:

Maurice Moscovich, Reginald Gardiner, Jack Oakie, Bernard Gorcey, Chester Conklin, Carter DeHaven, Paul Weigel, Billy Gilbert, Hank Mann, Henry Daniell, Paulette Goddard, Grace Hayle, Charlie Chaplin, Emma Dunn

Categories:

Comedies, Classic, Slapstick, Switching Roles, Vintage, Recommended, Essential Cinema

	Description

	Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler. Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel's balletic "pas de deux" with a globe, and a cream cake fight between Hynkel and Napoloni, the dictator of Bacteria.

	DVD Features

	Region 0 Encoding Snap Case Windowboxed 7 Minute Sequence Shot in 1918 for SUNNYSIDE that Inspired the Famous Barber Scene 1933 Fox MovieTone Newsreel About Adolf Hitler Original Story Notes

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	Awards

	No Award information currently available

	Technical Specifications

	Noise Reduction - Dolby Recording Mode - Mono Digital Process - Digitally Mastered Color - B&W Additional Information - Windowboxed

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Average Rating: Number of Reviews: 2 (view all)

Posted on September 23, 2007

Reviewed by: Movie Addict

The Great Dictator was Charlie Chaplin's first all-talking picture, and the first in which we heard the Little Tramp speak. Chaplin never used the Tramp character again after this film. This...
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Posted on March 6, 2007

Reviewed by: Jessica Film Junkie

Charlie Chaplin's comedy about Hitler and the Nazi Party is amazing when you consider that it came out right at the start of the war and it takes direct aim at the most horrible force in Europe in...
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