The Great Dictator (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection) G
Once again - the whole world laughs!
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- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2011
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Moscovich, Hank Mann, Grace Hayle, Reginald Gardiner, Paul Weigel, Paulette Goddard, Carter DeHaven, Emma Dunn, Billy Gilbert, Chester Conklin, Henry Daniell, Jack Oakie & Bernard Gorcey | |
| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Edited by | Willard Nico | |
| Composition by | Meredith Willson | |
| Cinematography by | Rollie Totheroh & Karl Struss | |
| Art Direction by | J. Russell Spencer | |
| Produced by | Charlie Chaplin |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The Chaplin masterpiece is a mecca of motion-picture art to which the industry's devout will make repeated pilgrimages in future years.
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California Eagle
Chaplin is at his most profound in suggesting that there is much of the Tramp in the Dictator, and much of the Dictator in the Tramp.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: A+ --
The Great Dictator (1940) is director/actor Charlie Chaplin's first full all-talking ("talkie" with dialogue) picture (in a film similar to the Marx Brothers' anti-war comedy Duck Soup (1933)) in which he delivered spoken lines...
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AMC Filmsite
[W]ith several immaculately realised sequences of pure visual comedy of which the globe-dance is merely the most iconic.
Sight and Sound Critic
It's when he is playing the dictator that the comedian's voice raises the value of the comedy content of the picture to great heights.
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Variety
Through no fault of Chaplin's, during the two years he was at work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy.
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TIME Magazine
Chaplin contrasts war's delusions of grandeur against traditional human values: truth, liberty, and justice. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
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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