The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin 1st Talkie

During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio. A satire, in case you are too thick to "get it"...

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DogNo7 (2007-12-09)

This is the first talking performance by Charlie Chaplin. He later commented that if he knew the full extent of the war atrocities, he never would have made the film.
Fortunately for us, he did.
-DogNo7

jgabriel (2007-12-09)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/

DogNo7 (2007-12-09)

I neglected the IMDB entry, which I normally link to, my apologies.
I should have also mentioned, this is Xvid encoded, with AC3 audio in an AVI envelope.
If you watch past the end of the movie, you will be treated to warnings of hellfire and dire agony. It is an interesting contrast to the last speech given in the film.
Chaplin would have despised and loathed the MPAA, and all of the constipated pontifications that men of mediocrity are trying to force us to live under, in the name of "Globalization".
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Charles Chaplin never lived to see the current world, or he would have realized that national boundaries and national sovereignty are the only means free men have for a chance for liberty.
Heil Hinkel.
-DogNo7

fiyero (2008-03-09)

This is fantastic film!
First ever i saw of Chaplin and its really good, screw all this new shit when there's great films from the 1940 :D

koshu (2008-05-28)

There is one movie by Chaplin thats named The Gold Rush. I think that Charles did a better work in that movie. Still... Love this movie. :)

godswallops (2009-03-29)

Excellent quality, great movie!
Thanks for the upload.

temhawk (2010-05-14)

thanks

DogNo7 (2010-06-14)

Shalom aleichem

Krinthalas (2012-12-19)

Thank you very much!