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Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Great dictator (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: United Artists Corporation, Image Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990, Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: ©2000
Edition:Standard ed.
Subjects:
Comedy films.
Dictators > Drama.
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945 > Parodies, imitations, etc.
Mussolini, Benito, > 1883-1945 > Parodies, imitations, etc.
Fascism > Drama.
National socialism > Drama.
Jews > Persecutions > Germany > Drama.
Antisemitism > Germany > Drama.
Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Drama.
Motion pictures, American.
Feature films.
Description
Summary:Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.
Item Description:Videodisc release of the 1940 motion picture.
Single layer.
Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Special features: Seven minute sequence shot in 1918 for Sunnyside that inspired the famous barber scene in The great dictator -- A 1933 For Movietone Newsreel about Adolf Hitler -- Original storynotes and drafts of scripts and production records documenting Chaplin's work on Sequence "X"--the final speech.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; Dolby digital, mono.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Directors of photography, Karl Strauss and Roland Totheroh ; editor, William Nico ; art, Russell J. Spencer ; music, Meredith Wilson.