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	The Great Dictator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
		According to the 2001 documentary on the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, the film was not only sent to Hitler, but an eyewitness confirmed he did see it [1].
		It was shown in London during the Battle of Britain, and was reportedly a great morale booster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Dictator (1887 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Great Dictator: The Chaplin Collection
		The Great Dictator opens with a simple declaration: "This is the story of the period between two world wars — an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat."
		The Great Dictator is essentially a tragic picture — or tragi-comic in the classic sense — and it has strongly bitter overtones." And in a bow to technological inevitability, this was Chaplin's first full-on sound film with dialogue.
		The Great Dictator fed ammo to the growing conservative faction in America who already had it in for Chaplin because of both his personal life and the politics they ascribed to him.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/g/greatdictator.shtml (3949 words)

	DVD review of Great Dictator, The - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the great man is doing his silent bits, the movie is art; when he stops to talk, with few exceptions, it tends to drag.
		His first role is that of the dictator of Tomania, Adenoid Hynkel, a peevish, foolish, and quite mad character whose emblem for his country is not the twisted cross but the double cross.
		"The Great Dictator" was one of the few motion pictures of the day to stand up and be counted against the forces of tyranny and injustice, for which it must always be commended.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/Great_Dictator_The/10922/1621 (1657 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - The Tramp and the Dictator
		Chaplin knew about the pamphlet and it is believed that it prompted him to make The Great Dictator, an incredibly daring film that laughed in the face of the totalitarian regimes and the hardship they inflicted.
		However the most remarkable footage is some colour film, showing the making of The Great Dictator, which was found in a suitcase in the cellar of Chaplin's Swiss home.
		The Great Dictator ended up making twice as much as Chaplin's other films which were already breaking all box-office records at the time.
	bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/tramp-and-the-dictator.shtml (377 words)

	The Great Dictator speech
		Charlie Chaplin's first talkie, The Great Dictator (1940), is loved and loathed in equal measures, but is an outstanding film in many respects.
		The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
		Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.
	www.vagabundia.net /dictator.html (985 words)

	The Great Dictator (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chaplin's first all talking, all sound motion picture is still a great one, although sometimes it feel awkward to watch.
		The Chaplin bits are there when Hynkel has the whole world literally in his hands (painted on a balloon) until it collapses in his face or when he, as the Jewish barber, is hit on the head and does a little dance for us.
		Great parts like these, combined with the sad story it tells, this is a great film.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0032553 (747 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Great Dictator
		The miracle is that The Great Dictator was released at all, for as it was premiering, conditions in concentration camps were just beginning to get serious publicity.
		Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, the Phooey of Tomania (Chaplin) hates everything, especially the Jews, and his evil minister Garbitsch (Henry Daniell) and his foolish Field Marshall Herring (Billy Gilbert) are helping him prepare for war against Osterlich.
		The Great Dictator is perhaps Charlie Chaplin's finest hour as a citizen of the world.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s885dict.html (1679 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Great Dictator (1940), Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, dvd review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I watched The Great Dictator nearly 60 years after it was made, and with plenty of hindsight, and I still think it's a masterpiece.
		If she had been chosen, perhaps The Great Dictator would never have been made.) By a twist of fate, the pilot whom the barber saved in the war becomes one of Hynkel's top men.
		The Great Dictator is his best movie because of its combination of the two Chaplins, and because of its hopeful message in which Chaplin does more than just get the girl or the gold.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /greatdict.shtml (965 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Dictator: DVD: Rudolph Anders,Chester Conklin,Henry Daniell,Carter DeHaven,Eddie Dunn,Emma ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although I prefer "Modern Times" to "The Great Dictator," one can't realistically compare the two, mainly because Chaplin wasn't trying to be funny in the latter...he was dead serious about what he was doing, and he did it brilliantly.
		Charles Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania)/A Jewish Barber, Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Jack Oakie as Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria), Reginald Gardiner as Commander Schultz, Henry Daniell as Garbitsch, Billy Gilbert as Field Marshal Herring, Grace Hayle as Madame Napaloni, Carter DeHaven as Spook (Bacterian ambassador), Maurice Moscovitch as Mr.
		Mann, Charles Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania)/A Jewish Barber, Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Jack Oakie as Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria), Reginald Gardiner as Commander Schultz, Henry Daniell as Garbitsch, Billy Gilbert as Field Marshal Herring, Grace Hayle as Madame Napaloni, Carter DeHaven as Spook (Bacterian ambassador), Maurice Moscovitch as Mr.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004S89I?v=glance (3043 words)

	The Great Dictator
		Story-A Jewish barber is the spitting image of the Great Dictator, with both roles played by Chaplin.
		As the barber, Chaplin has the element of comedy with him and this element is played out in sketches that had been thought of twenty years earlier.
		As the dictator, Chaplin skillfully makes fun of Hitler, using overemphasis of mannerisms and the classic globe balloon scene where the dictator, alone in his study, uses a globe in a carefully choreographed ballet.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/dictator.html (503 words)

	The Great Dictator Movie: The Great Dictator DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/085393765026IE (160 words)

	Australian Financial Review - The little tramp and the great dictator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is commonly assumed that Chaplin was Jewish, but this was not the case, although the egalitarian Chaplin often said he hoped there was a certain amount of Jew in him.
		The scene where the two dictators meet to decide the fate of Osterlich is unforgettable.
		The barber refuses to kowtow to bullying storm troopers and, forced to flee the ghetto, he dresses up in an army uniform; mistaken for Hynkel (who himself has been mistaken for the wanted barber), the barber is obliged to address a Nuremberg-style party rally.
	afr.com /articles/2003/09/25/1064083120796.html (1121 words)

	Amazon.ca: Great Dictator: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Overall, "The Great Dictator" attempts to demonstrate the idiocy of war.
		I have always been curious as to what his thoughts were on this total classic send-up of the great men of the Blood-Axis in their own time.
		The Great Dictator is as relevant today as it was when it skewered Hitler and his gang of Fascist bigots back in 1940.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000096IBH (1275 words)

	The Great Dictator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was into this isolationist climate that Charlie Chaplin released his first "talkie" film, THE GREAT DICTATOR.
		This political satire did more than lampoon Hitler and Mussolini and call attention to the plight of European Jews; it was an indictment of the Nazi regime and a call to arms.
		Several of the sequences are truly delightful in the classic Chaplinesque style, such as a scene when several men attempt to avoid being picked for an assassination attempt, a scene where Chaplin shaves a man to Brahms' "Hungarian Rhapsody," and the famous dance with the globe balloon.
	www.chisdes.com /dictator.html (391 words)

	Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator
		A biting and satirical verdict on fascism, it was his first dialogue film which broke him through the silent age and into the "talkies." An anti-Nazi film and spoof of Adolf Hitler; The Great Dictator was a most prophetic film which nearly cost Chaplin his life due to its content.
		Much later, when the full horror of the Nazi regime was revealed, some felt that The Great Dictator was tasteless, laughing in the face of unimaginable barbarism.
		In The Great Dictator, Paulette Goddard plays Hannah, a strong woman who stands her own in battle against enslavement.
	members.aol.com /FenixFlyte/chaplin.html (1870 words)

	Jiminy Critic Movie Reviews - Review of The Great Dictator (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Great Dictator is a twist on the classic prince and the pauper tale.
		Chaplin, of course, plays both characters—the first being Adenoid Hynkel, the megalomaniacal dictator of Tomania, and the other being a simple Jewish barber who returns to the Ghetto in 1937 after suffering from Amnesia incurred in the first world war.
		Unlike several of Chaplin’s other films, where the only redeemable performance was that of Chaplin himself, the acting in The Great Dictator is generally quite good.
	www.jiminycritic.com /review.asp?ReviewID=105 (733 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| The great dictator
		Mourinho grew up during the last decade of a regime whose dictator, the misanthropic economist Salazar, imposed on Portugal a corporate state copied from Mussolini's Italy.
		Lusitanian fascism, adroitly disguising itself, preached an alliterative ideology: its triple pillars - as rebels used to grumble in the years before the 1974 revolution ended the dictatorship - were Fatima, fado and football.
		Last March the warmonger even posed as a peacemaker, when during a trip to Israel he recommended football as a means of appeasing the Palestinians.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1712714,00.html (2999 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Great Dictator (1940)
		It is one of the great cosmic jokes that the greatest monster of the twentieth century bore a remarkable resemblance to its greatest clown—it's evidence that we live in a synchronistic universe, and that despite its horrors, Fascism cannot stand in the face of being laughed at.
		The Great Dictator is his exploitation of the fact that this horrible little man was becoming dangerously powerful, and Chaplin's reminder to the world that the seemingly crazed rantings of the leader of the Reich needed to be taken seriously.
		The political moment of The Great Dictator has moved from the headlines to the history books, but Chaplin's film is no less smart, funny and brave than when it first appeared in 1940.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5595 (1249 words)

	American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from The Great Dictator - Adenoid Hynkel's Closing Address (Look Up Hannah)
		To those who can hear me I say, "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
		The hate of men will pass and dictators die; and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
		Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
	americanrhetoric.com /MovieSpeeches/moviespeechthegreatdictator.html (716 words)

	THE GREAT DICTATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination.
		In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so much like Hynkel that he could be his twin.
		Later, the two men escape and the barber is mistaken for Hynkel.
	www.tribute.ca /movie_spec/6139.htm (134 words)

	DerekMartin.ca :: Derek Martin's Space in The Voodoo Ether :: Blog
		The Great Dictator :: 2004-11-18 10:18:49 :: karma 9
		We went to see "The Great Dictator" at The Cinematheque @ Jackmann Hall last night.
		It's about a Hitler-esque dictator who opresses his country and tries to take over even more countries, whose tribulations are depicted through the eyes of an amnesic Jewish barber -- both title characters being played by Chaplin.
	www.derekmartin.ca /index.php?act=viewEntry.604 (1153 words)

	The Great Dictator
		Charlie Chaplin's first full length talkie was The Great Dictator, which was proclaimed in 1940, when it was released, as one of the most powerful critiques on Hitler and Germany's Nazi regime.
		Today it is still considered as an important study of the advent of the rise of the Third Reich.
		The Great Dictator is an usual comedy, combining satire, Chaplin's slapstick and social commentary as he plays the dual role of a Jewish ghetto barber and the dictator, Adenoid Hynkel of Tomania.
	www.laemmle.com /series/ijffc/greatd.html (127 words)

	DVD.net : The Great Dictator: SE - DVD Review
		The world is at war battling the hopelessly misguided Adolf Hitler in a struggle he will eventually lose.
		The Great Dictator is a brilliant film from a brilliant man, and along with Modern Times was included among the all-time top 100 American Comedies as voted by the American Film Institute in 2000.
		Recently some very dirty and decrepit 16mm silent film was discovered in the attic of the Chaplins’.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3465 (1312 words)

	Title: "The Great Dictator" - Topics: Biography/Hitler; World/WW II
		Title: "The Great Dictator" - Topics: Biography/Hitler; World/WW II --- Biography/Hitler; World/WW II.
		The scene with Hitler and the globe is one of the most memorable on film.
		"The Great Dictator" will provide an opportunity for parents or teachers to explain many of the events leading up to World War II and the personalities of the men who started the war.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/great-dictator.html (565 words)

	The Great Dictator
		Tom Cruise is back as secret agent Ethan Hunt, and his tormentor this time is none other than Capote himself, aka Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
		"The Great Dictator was perhaps Chaplin’s most ambitious film, an attempt to grapple with a target clearly too big to humble with comedy."
		"One of Chaplin's weakest films, The Great Dictator lacks the subtlety and grace that distinguished his earlier features.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/great_dictator (567 words)

	The Great Dictator (1940)
		The film is stolen by Jack Oakie as the hilarious Napaloni, doing his best Mussolini impersonation and always trying to get one up on his fellow dictator.
		In colour and in 16mm, the film is in remarkably good condition.
		It includes footage of an alternative ending to the film that was replaced with the current ending during production.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5462 (1554 words)

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