The Great Dictator (1940)

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Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell
Director: Charles Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charles Chaplin
Studio: United Artists
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Rating: G
Running Time: 2 hours 4 minutes
Release Date: October 15, 1940

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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.

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