Grande Dittatore (Il) (2 DVD+Booklet) (DVD)
Italian Import - The Great Dictator
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9788899196233
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 24 Mar 2016
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- DVD
- Region
- Region 2
- Year
- 1940
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- Italian
- Number of Discs
- 2
- Supply Source
- Europe
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, )