Come heil or high water, Charles Chaplin is in the fight! And the result is a celebrated classic honored in 2000 as one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Comedies. The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuhrer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie.
Puns, sight gags and slapstick abound as Chaplin skewers fascism, balancing his attack with poignant scenes of a ghetto in the clutches of storm-trooping terror. Immortal bits include Hynkel’s besotted dance with a globe, the upside-down flight and Hynkel and a Mussolini-like Jack Oakie madly cranking their barber chairs higher and higher. Great comedy meets great filmmaking passion in The Great Dictator- All-new digital transfer from Chaplin family vault picture and audio elements.
- Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as Original Mono.
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access.
- Languages: English, Francais & Espanol.
- Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol, Portugues, Chinese, Thai & Korean.
The Great Dictator- The Tramp and the Dictator 55 Mins : A documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft, which parallels the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, born the same week of the same year.
- The production filmed in color by Sydney Chaplin 25 Mins. Recently discovered color footage shot on the set of the film.
- Charlie the Barber (1919)7 Mins. Twenty years before The Great Dictator a scene shot by Chaplin for his short, Sunnyside, but deleted from the finished film.
- Scene from Monsieur Verdoux (1947) 3 Mins.
- Scenes from films in the Chaplin Collection 23 Mins.
- Poster Gallery
