Like all major Chaplin works, Dictator was a cheaply, but methodically, made film, a cardboard act of humanist defiance, and, thanks to its purity of purpose, the cheesier the jokes get, the harder they land.
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12/23/09
The Great Dictator (1940)
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Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Director: Charlie Chaplin
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Top CriticIt is a funny film, which we expect from Chaplin, and a brave one.
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