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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Charlie Chaplin |
| Actors: |
Maurice Moscovich |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Vintage · Recommended · Switching Roles · Slapstick Comedy · Essential Cinema · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
G (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Windowboxed |
| UPC: |
086162300837 |
| Release Date: |
1940 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 8min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: 2-Disc Set; The Chaplin Collection, 2hr 8min Release Company: Warner Home Video (July 10, 2003) UPC: 663286201617 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 8min |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful--to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us unite. Let us fight for a new world...a recent world that will give men a chance to work--that will give youth a future and old age a security."--the Barber (Charlie Chaplin) |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. 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. |
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