| Edition |
Standard version. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
The Chaplin collection |
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Chaplin collection.
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| System Details |
DVD; region 1, standard presentation, dual-layer format; Dolby digital. |
| Cast |
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert. |
| Credits |
Directors of photography, Karl Strauss, Roland Totheroh; film editor, William Nico; musical direction, Meredith Willson. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: G. |
| Note |
Special features: The tramp and the dictator, a documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft (55 min.), the production filmed in color by Sydney Chaplin (25 min.), a seven-minute sequence shot in 1918 for Sunnyside that inspired the famous barber scene in The Great Dictator (7 min.), scene from Monsieur Verdoux (3 min.), scenes from films in the Chaplin collection (23 min.), poster gallery. |
| Summary |
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers. |
| Contents |
disc 1. The film (120 min.) -- disc 2. Special features (113 min.) |
| Language |
English, French, or Spanish dialogue with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai or Korean; closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Dictators -- Drama.
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Dictators -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drama.
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Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Drama.
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Fascism -- Drama.
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National socialism -- Drama.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Drama.
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Antisemitism -- Germany -- Drama.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama.
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Feature films.
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Comedy films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Closed captioning.
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| Added Author |
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
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Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990.
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Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978.
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Gardiner, Reginald, 1903-1980.
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United Artists Corporation.
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0790771675 |
| Music No. |
37944 Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions |
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