TY - GEN N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - The great dictator DA - c2003. CY - Burbank, CA : AU - Chaplin, Charlie, AU - Goddard, Paulette, AU - Oakie, Jack, AU - Gardiner, Reginald, ET - Standard version. CN - PN1997 CN - PN1997 PB - Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions, PP - Burbank, CA : LA - engfrespa LA - In English, French, and Spanish; subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Korean. LA - Closed-captioned. PY - c2003. N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. N1 - 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. ID - 331999 KW - Dictators KW - Dictators KW - Fascism KW - National socialism KW - Jews KW - Antisemitism SN - 0790771675 SN - 9780790771670 TI - The great dictator ER -