The great dictator
2003
DVD
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish "Tomainian" dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Okie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.'s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin's famously impassioned speech.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604654233
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (28 pages).
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: CHVR: Not rated.
Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940.
- Director of photography, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh; editor, Willard Nico; music, Charles Chaplin, Meredith Wilson.
- Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle.
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio), Dolby digital mono.
- In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).
Contents:
- Disc one. The film
- Disc two. The supplements.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC2011D
Control Number: 533687
UPC: 715515080712
Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]Series:
Subjects:
- Adventures in Canadian history
- Antisemitism -- Germany -- Drama.
- Dictators -- Drama.
- Dictators -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Fascism -- Drama.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drama.
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Drama.
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Drama.
- National socialism -- Drama.
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