DVD
The great dictator
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Performers
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert.
Publication Information
Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series
Summary
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.
Notes
DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.
Videodisc release of the 1940 motion picture.
Not rated.
Special features include: A seven-minute sequence shot in 1918 for "Sunnyside" that inspired the famous barber scene in The Great Dictator ; a 1933 Fox MovieTone newsreel about Adolf Hitler ; original story notes, drafts of scripts and production records documenting Chaplin's work on Sequence "X"--the Final Speech.