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Classic Films

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appalachiablue

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Sat Jan 18, 2025, 04:35 PM Jan 18

Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator (1940) 🎬 [View all]


(Film clip). Inside the palace of Adenoid Hynkel, Chaplin's caricature of Hitler, in a scene from The Great Dictator.
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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring, British filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.

Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of the German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, as well as fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. At the time of its first release, the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany and neutral during what were the early days of World War II. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber.

The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful film. Modern critics have praised it as a historically significant film, one of the greatest comedy films ever made and an important work of satire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator
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