| Descript |
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Chaplin collection ; pt. 2
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| Note |
Originally released as a silent motion picture in 1940 |
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Features: The tramp and The dictator: documentary directed by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft, making of in color filmed by Sydney Chaplin (1939/40), gallery of film posters, Charlie the barber / deleted scene from Chaplin's short movie Sunnyside, a seven-minute sequence shot in 1918 for Sunnyside that inspired the famous barber scene in The great dictator, a 1933 Fox MovieTone newsreel about Adolf Hitler, original story notes, drafts of scripts and production records documenting Chaplin's work on Sequence "X" - The final speech |
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Director of photography, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh; editor, Willard Nico; music, Meredith Willson |
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Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard |
| Summary |
Chaplin's first film with dialogue in which he is a modest unassuming proprietor of a small barber shop in the Jewish ghetto Tomania who is mistaken for the country's maniacal dictator, Adenoid Hynkel. Satire on Hitler |
| Note |
MPAA rating: G |
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DVDs, Dolby digital 5.1 surround |
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For private home use only |
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In English, French, or Spanish with optional Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, or Thai subtitles |
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Closed-captioned |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Humor -- Drama
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Dictators -- Drama
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Comedy films
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Feature films
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| Alt Author |
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
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Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978
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Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990
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Willson, Meredith, 1902-1984
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United Artists Corporation
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MK2 Productions
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0790771675 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
00085393765026 gtin-14 |
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085393765026 |
| Music # |
37650 |
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