The Grandview is putting that singular voice on the big screen in a distinctive way. Throughout July, it will show the entire ...

But Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash: 1941's second biggest hit in the US.

Charlie Chaplin plays three parts in The Great Dictator.First his old one, the funny little man whom the entire world loves; second, Hitler; and third, Charlie Chaplin himself, a social-minded ...

Chaplin makes no bones about his utter contempt for dictators like Hitler and Mussolini in his production of The Great Dictator. He takes time out to make fun about it, but the preachment is ...

The Great Dictator (1940) marked Charles Chaplin’s late-in-the-day move to talking pictures. He had used synchronized sound — music and effects — in City Lights (1931), had incorporated some ...

Charlie Chaplin's call for peace in the final speech of The Great Dictator is regrettably as relevant today in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak as it was in 1940.k, Charlie Chaplin's call for ...

When "The Great Dictator," Charles Chaplin's bitter satire of Adolf Hitler, opened in 1940, more than a year before the U.S. entered World War II, many were outraged that a British citizen had ...

Remember when we were so afraid of Hitler that we didn't release Chaplin's, "The Great Dictator," except the opposite. — Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) December 17, 2014.

"The Great Dictator" (1940) Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discussed his book, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America," and the impact of the silent film star's 1940 film, "The Great Dictator." ...

But Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash: 1941's second biggest hit in the US.