The great dictator
DVD - 2011
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection
[2011]
- Language
- English
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Chinese
Thai - Other Authors
- Edition
- Full screen
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Additional material: Disc 1. Audio commentary by Chaplin historians dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran. Disc 2. The tramp and the dictator, a documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft (2001, 55 min.); the production filmed in color by Sydney Chaplin (25 min.); a seven-minute sequence shot in 1918 for Sunnyside that inspired the famous barber scene in The Great Dictator (7 min.); scene from Monsieur Verdoux (3 min.); scenes from films in the Chaplin collection (23 min.); poster gallery. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Dual-layer format; Dolby digital.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: G.
- Production Credits
- Directors of photography, Karl Strauss, Roland Totheroh; film editor, William Nico; musical direction, Meredith Willson.