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.

THE GREAT DICTATOR was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997.

Copyright 1940 Charles Chaplin Film Corporation. Renewed 1968 The Roy Export Company Establishment.

Excerpt: "You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful--to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us unite. Let us fight for a new world...a recent world that will give men a chance to work--that will give youth a future and old age a security."--the Barber (Charlie Chaplin)

DVD Features:

Region 1
2-Disc Set
Digi-Pack
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Surround 5.1 - English

Charlie Chaplin: Silent comedy pioneer, MODERN TIMES (1936)
Paulette Goddard: American actress, SO PROUDLY WE HAIL!
Jack Oakie: American Supporting Actor
Reginald Gardiner: British Character Actor
Henry Daniell: British actor, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
Billy Gilbert: American Actor
Maurice Moscovich: 
Emma Dunn: British Actress
Grace Hayle: Actress\"Great Dictator"
Carter DeHaven: Editor, THE REAL WORLD - THE LOST SEASON (2002)
Bernard Gorcey: American Actor
Paul Weigel: Actor\"Great Dictator"
Chester Conklin: American Comic Actor
Hank Mann: American Supporting Actor

Charlie Chaplin: Silent comedy pioneer, MODERN TIMES (1936)

Charlie Chaplin: Silent comedy pioneer, MODERN TIMES (1936)

Meredith Willson: American Songwriter/Composer

Willard Nico: Editor\"Great Dictator"