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- Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell
- Director: Charles Chaplin
- Screenwriter: Charles Chaplin
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Rating: G
- Running Time: 2 hrs. 5 mins.
- Release Date: May 24, 2011
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.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New high-definition digital restoration
- New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran
- The Tramp and the Dictator (2001), a documentary narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a host of others
- Two new visual essays, by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
- On-set, color production footage shot by Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney
- Deleted scene from Chaplin's 1919 film Sunnyside
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film
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