The Great Dictator - D 7 CHA
Image (1940)
Comedy, Drama
In Collection
#728
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Seen It:  Yes
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124 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 2
Charles Chaplin Adenoid Hynkel/A Jewish Barber
Henry Daniell Garbitsch
Carter DeHaven Spook
Emma Dunn Mrs. Jaeckel
Reginald Gardiner Commander Schultz
Billy Gilbert Field Marshal Herring
Paulette Goddard Hannah
Grace Hayle Madame Napaloni
Maurice Moscovitch Mr. Jaeckel
Jack Oakie Benzini Napaloni
Director
Charles Chaplin
Producer Charles Chaplin
Carter DeHaven
Writer Charles Chaplin
Cinematography Karl Struss
Roland Totheroh
Musician Charles Chaplin
Meredith Willson

Chaplin's first true "talking" picture, The Great Dictator daringly satirizes both Nazism and Adolf Hitler. Chaplin portrays both the dictator Adenoid Hynkel and the poor Jewish barber who is his look-alike.
Edition Details
Edition The Chaplin Collection
Distributor Warner Bros.
Release Date 22/09/2003
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles Arabic; Bulgarian; Dutch; English; English (Closed Captioned); French; German; Italian; Portuguese; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [French]
Dolby Digital Mono [Italian]
Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 2
Personal Details
Links vailability

Features
Disc 01 All-New Digital Transfer From Chaplin Family Vault Picture & Audio Elements. Soundtrack Remastered In Dolby Digital 5.1, As Well As Original 1.0 Mono.Featurettes/Documentaries:The Tramp And The Dictator: A Documentary By Kevin Brownlow & Michael Kloft Which Parallels The Lives Of Chaplin And Hitler, Born The Same Week Of The Same Uear (55 Mins)The Production Filmed In Colour By Sydney Chaplin: Recently Discovered Colour Footage Shot On The Set Of The Film (25 Mins)Charlie The Barber (1919): Twenty Years Before The Great Dictator, A Scene Shot By Chaplin For His Short, Sunnyside, But Deleted From The Finished Film (7 Mins)Scene From Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (3 Mins)Poster GalleryScenes From The Films In The Chaplin Collection (23 Mins)