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Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Great Dictator 1940


The Great Dictator 1940 - Director: Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Henry Daniell




















































During World War I, a humble Jewish barber saves the life of an officer, but injures himself in an aeroplane crash. Having spent 20 years in hospital recovering from memory loss, the barber returns to his home in the Jewish ghetto to find his people tormented by vicious soldiers. To his surprise, the barber learns that his country, Tomania, has become a dictatorship and is now governed by the ruthless anti-Semite Adenoid Hynkel, who bears a striking resemblance to the barber...

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