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The great dictator [dvd videorecording]
Title:
The great dictator [dvd videorecording]
Author:
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
ISBN:
9780790771670
Edition:
Standard version.
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions, c2003.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series:
Chaplin collection ; v. 1, pt.2
Series Title:
Chaplin collection ; v. 1, pt.2
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Additional material includes 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.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: G.
Added Title:
The great dictator DVD.
