The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. 
==Plot==
After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel (also Chaplin) and his anti-Semitic policies. When the barber, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Hynkel, returns to his quiet neighborhood, he is stunned by the brutal changes and recklessly joins a beautiful girl (Paulette Goddard) and her neighbors in rebelling.
==Cast==
===People of the ghetto===
*Charlie Chaplin as a Jewish barber 
*Paulette Goddard as Hannah, the Barber's neighbour
*Emma Dunn as Mrs. Jaeckel
*Bernard Gorcey as Mr. Mann
*Paul Weigel as Mr. Agar
*Chester Conklin as Barber's customer
===People of the palace===
*Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel
*Jack Oakie as Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, a parody of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
*Reginald Gardiner as Commander Schultz
*Henry Daniell as Garbitsch
*Grace Hayle as Madame Napaloni, the wife of Benzino 
*Carter DeHaven as Bacterian ambassador
===Other cast===
*Stanley "Tiny" Sandford as a comrade soldier in 1918
*Joe Bordeaux as ghetto extra
*Hank Mann as storm trooper stealing fruit
**Also featuring Esther Michelson, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Robert O. Davis, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike and Peter Lynn.
Category:1940 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:1940s films
Category:American political satire films
Category:American comedy-drama films
Category:Comedy-drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:United Artists films
Category:Films directed by Charlie Chaplin
Category:Blockbusters