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Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator
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Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber who accidentally looks very similar to the dictator recklessly joins a beautiful girl and her neighbors in rebelling.
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber who accidentally looks very similar to the dictator recklessly joins a beautiful girl and her neighbors in rebelling.
Actors:
George Nardelli,
Harry Wilson,
Florence Wright,
Eddie Dunn,
Eddie Gribbon,
Pat Flaherty,
John Alban
George Nardelli
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
Harry Wilson
22 November 1897, London, England, UK
Florence Wright
Eddie Dunn
31 March 1896, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Eddie Gribbon
3 January 1890, New York City, New York, USA
Pat Flaherty
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
John Alban
2 January 1903, Pennsylvania, USA
Country:
United States
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George Nardelli
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
Harry Wilson
22 November 1897, London, England, UK
Florence Wright
Eddie Dunn
31 March 1896, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Eddie Gribbon
3 January 1890, New York City, New York, USA
Pat Flaherty
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Filmcritic.com
May 20, 2011
...stared evil in the face long before the rest of Hollywood even thought it was possible.
January 18, 2013
The only trouble is that such perfect scenes as this are followed by more conventional passages which would be funny enough in an average picture but let one down in a film that deals so ambitiously with so great a theme.
September 03, 2010
Chaplin is at his most profound in suggesting that there is much of the Tramp in the Dictator, and much of the Dictator in the Tramp.
July 22, 2010
Despite the film's weaknesses, Chaplin's lampooning of Hitler is a moment of comic genius, complemented by Jack Oakie's ridiculously exaggerated portrayal of the Mussolini-like Italian fascist
December 23, 2009
Like all major Chaplin works, Dictator was a cheaply, but methodically, made film, a cardboard act of humanist defiance, and, thanks to its purity of purpose, the cheesier the jokes get, the harder they land.
April 04, 2017
The lessons remain, and the strength of his statement still inspires his descendants - professional or otherwise - to follow his example.
June 01, 2011
The first full-blown talkie from the biggest star of the silent era, complete with a message that Chaplin couldn't have sent more loudly or clearly.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
May 20, 2012
...a great movie because it works as a film, and because it is a document of courage and faith, the prime exhibit in Chaplin's humanist brief ... Dictator is a comedy, the work of a clown, but it is no joke. Chaplin had lethal intent.
October 09, 2008
It's when he is playing the dictator that the comedian's voice raises the value of the comedy content of the picture to great heights.
May 30, 2011
While it is not the greatest of Charlie Chaplin's feature films, it is certainly his bravest, if not one of the bravest films ever made.
September 03, 2010
Through no fault of Chaplin's, during the two years he was at work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy.
February 09, 2006
The representation of Hitler is vaudeville goonery all the way, but minus the acid wit and inventive energy that Groucho Marx managed.