TY - ADVS AU - Chaplin,Charlie AU - Conklin,Chester AU - Daniell,Henry AU - De Haven,Carter AU - Dunn,Eddie AU - Dunn,Emma AU - Gardiner,Reginald AU - Gilbert,Billy AU - Goddard,Paulette AU - Gorcey,Bernard AU - Gribbon,Edward AU - Hayle,Grace AU - Lynn,George AU - Mann,Hank AU - Michelson,Esther AU - Moscovich,Maurice AU - Nico,Willard AU - Oakie,Jack AU - Pike,Nita AU - Rominger,Glenn AU - Spencer,J.Russell AU - Struss,Karl AU - Totheroh,Roland H. AU - Townsend,Percy J. AU - Weigel,Paul AU - Willson,Meredith AU - Wright,Florence ED - Charles Chaplin Film Corporation. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Janus Films. ED - MK2 Productions. TI - The great dictator T2 - Criterion collection SN - 1604654236 PY - 2011/// CY - [Irvington, NY] PB - The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Distributed by MK2 KW - Hitler, Adolf, KW - Mussolini, Benito, KW - Antisemitism KW - Germany KW - Drama KW - Dictators KW - Parodies, imitations, etc KW - Fascism KW - Jews KW - Persecutions KW - National socialism KW - History KW - 1933-1945 KW - Comedy films KW - lcgft KW - Dark comedy films KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940; Disc 1. The film -- disc 2. the supplements; Directors of photography, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh ; film editor, Willard Nico ; musical direction, Meredith Willson ; original music, Charles Chaplin, Meredith Willson ; art director, J. Russell Spencer ; sound, Percy Townsend, Glenn Rominger; Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter De Haven, Maurice Moscovich, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Robert O'Davis, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike, Peter Lynn N2 - In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination ER -