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The Great Dictator 1940 Film | Charlie Chaplin Movies



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Alternative titles (from Letterboxd): Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator, Diktatoren, 大独裁者, El gran dictador, De diktator, Великият диктатор, O Grande Ditador, Le dictateur, Diktátor, Dokusaisha, Ο μεγάλος δικτάτωρ, הדיקטטור הגדול, 위대한 독재자, Великий диктатор, Der große Diktator, De Dictator


The Great Dictator plot from IMDb: "Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime."


The Great Dictator trailer can be found online.


Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Produced by Charlie Chaplin

Written by Charlie Chaplin

Music by Charlie Chaplin, Meredith Willson

Cinematography: Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh

Edited by Willard Nico, Harold Rice

Production company: Charles Chaplin Film Corporation

Distributed by United Artists

Release date: October 15, 1940 (New York City), October 31, 1940 (United States)

Running time: 124 minutes

Budget: $2 million (US$36,760,766 in 2019 dollars)

Box office: $3.5 million (US rentals)


Cast and Characters:

People of the ghetto

Charlie Chaplin as a Jewish barber in the ghetto

Paulette Goddard as Hannah

Maurice Moscovich as Mr. Jaeckel

Emma Dunn as Mrs. Jaeckel

Bernard Gorcey as Mr. Mann

Paul Weigel as Mr. Agar

Chester Conklin as Barber's customer

People of the palace

Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel

Jack Oakie as Benzino Napaloni, the Diggaditchie (a parody of the term Duce)

Reginald Gardiner as Commander Schultz

Henry Daniell as Garbitsch, a parody of Joseph Goebbels

Billy Gilbert as Herring, a parody of Hermann Göring

Grace Hayle as Madame Napaloni


Carter DeHaven as Bacterian ambassador Spook.

Other cast

Stanley "Tiny" Sandford as a comrade soldier in 1918

Joe Bordeaux as ghetto extra

Hank Mann as storm trooper stealing fruit

Also featuring Esther Michelson, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Robert O. Davis, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike and Peter Lynn.

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