In a tribute to Charlie Chaplin’s birthday today!
THE GREAT DICTATOR, 1940
Movie Reviews
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
SYNOPSIS:
At the end of the First World War a clumsy solider ends up in the hospital for twenty years with amnesia. When released he goes back to his barber shop unaware that his country is now being ruled by a tyrant of a dictator, who he happens to be the spitting image of and one day gets mistaken for.
Review:
Charlie Chaplin’s (though billed as Charles in this film) first full length all sound picture, The Great Dictator was a ground breaking in its time for its anti-fascism. When the film first started production in 1937 the world hardly knew of the atrocities Hitler was doing. Charlie decided to do the film after a friend of his told him how much he…
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