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The Great Dictator
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Dec 25, 2009 – Dec 31, 2009
Daily
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$12.50
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Having bid a fond fare-thee-well to the Tramp four years earlier in Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin took on Hitler and fascism in his first true talkie, The Great Dictator. Note that the silent icon released this takedown in 1940, a year before the US entered the European and Pacific theaters of war, and several before Hitler's fate was self-inflicted in a crumbling Berlin bunker. Prescient indeed, but capital-A Audacious above all. The film, of course, is also trademark hilarious and intricate, with the director/producer/writer starring as both the despotic and daft Adenoid Hynkel and the Jewish barber mistaken for this celluloid Führer. Among other slapstick bits, the heart-on-the-sleeve closing monologue looms large in Chaplin's filmography.
