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The great dictator /

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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, MK2 Productions, Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990, Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978, Daniell, Henry, 1894-1963, Gardiner, Reginald, 1903-1980, Gilbert, Billy, 1894-1971
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Language Notes:Closed-captioned. Sound tracks: English (Dolby surround 5.1 and mono.), French (mono.), and Spanish (mono.), with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, and Korean.
Published: [France?] : Burbank, CA : Mk2 Editions ; Warner Home Video, [2003]
Edition:Standard version.
Series:Chaplin collection (Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.))
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.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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:Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Dual-layer format.
All-new digital transfer from Chaplin family vault picture and audio elements.
Special features: The tramp and the dictator: a documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft, which parallels the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, born the same week of the same year (55 min.) -- The production filmed in color by Sydney Chaplin: recently discovered color footage shot on the set of the film (25 min.) -- Charlie the Barber (1919): twenty years before The great dictator, a scene shot by Chaplin for his short, Sunnyside, but deleted from the finished film (7 min.) -- Scene from Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (3 min.) -- Scenes from films in the Chaplin collection (23 min.) -- Poster gallery.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; Dolby digital.
Audience:MPAA rating: G.
Production Credits:Directors of photography, Karl Strauss, Roland Totheroh ; film editor, William Nico ; musical direction, Meredith Willson.
ISBN:0790771675