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The great dictator / written and directed by Charlie Chaplin ; United Artists.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 037 897 disc 1-2
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Chaplin collection (Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.))
- Chaplin collection
- Standardized Title:
- Great dictator (Motion picture)
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- French
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons--Drama.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945--Caricatures and cartoons--Drama.
- Mussolini, Benito.
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
- Chaplin, Charlie.
- Fascism--Caricatures and cartoons--Drama.
- Fascism.
- National socialism--Caricatures and cartoons--Drama.
- National socialism.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Drama.
- Jews.
- Antisemitism--Germany--Caricatures and cartoons--Drama.
- Antisemitism.
- Germany--History--1933-1945--Caricatures and cartoons--Drama.
- Germany.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Feature films -- United States.
- Silent films
- Biographies
- Comedy films
- Feature films
- History
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Biographies.
- Parody films.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [S.l.] : MK2 Éditions ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue; optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese or Korean.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. The great dictator
- disc 2. Special features: The tramp and the dictator (55 mins.) / directed by Kevin Brownlow & Michael Kloft ; Making of in color (26 min.) / [as filmed] by Sydney Chaplin ; Charlie the barber (8 min.) ; scene from Monsieur Verdoux (3 min.) ; poster gallery ; scenes from films in the Chaplin Collection (ca. 23 mins.).
- Participant:
- Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich.
- Credits:
- Photography, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh ; editor, Willard Nico ; music, Meredith Willson.
- Notes:
- National Film Registry selection, 1997.
- Special features: documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft; recently discovered color footage shot on the set of the film; scenes from Sunnyside, Monsieur Verdoux and other films in the series.
- Contains:
- Tramp and the dictator
- Monsieur Verdoux
- ISBN:
- 079078064X
- 9780790780641
- 0790771675
- 9780790771670
- OCLC:
- 53400303
- Publisher Number:
- 085393765026
- 37944 Warner Home Video
- Access Restriction:
- Educational and home use only.
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