Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator (Blu-ray)
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- Price
- R 463
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Description
The rise of Nazism is spoofed in this 1940 film, in which an amnesiac Jewish barber is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania, Adenoid Hynkel (both played by Chaplin). Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie and Reginald Gardiner co-star.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 5021866160405
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 24 Aug 2015
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- Blu-ray
- Genre
- Classic
- Region
- Region B
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Artificial Eye
- Extras
- Interactive Menus
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Age Restriction
- PG
- Supply Source
- UK
Movie
- Title
- Great Dictator
- Release Year
- 1940
- Running Time
- 125 min
- Color
- B&W
- Categories
- Comedies / Classic / Essential Cinema / Recommended / Slapstick / Switching Roles / Vintage
- Language
- English
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Notes
- THE GREAT DICTATOR was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997.
Copyright 1940 Charles Chaplin Film Corporation. Renewed 1968 The Roy Export Company Establishment.
- Poster
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Star
- Charlie Chaplin / Chester Conklin / Henry Daniell / Carter DeHaven / Emma Dunn / Reginald Gardiner / Billy Gilbert / Paulette Goddard / Bernard Gorcey / Grace Hayle / Hank Mann / Maurice Moscovich / Jack Oakie / Paul Weigel
- Composer
- Meredith Willson
- Producer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Editor
- Willard Nico
- Art Director
- J. Russell Spencer
- Cinematographer
- Karl Struss / Rollie Totheroh
- Movie Critics
- Sight and Sound Critic
- "[W]ith several immaculately realised sequences of pure visual comedy of which the globe-dance is merely the most iconic."— Michael Brooke (1 Jun 2010, )