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The Great Dictator 127 minutes, USA (1940), U
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Chaplin satirises the Nazi regime with his not-so-subtle imitation of Hitler's megalomaniacal tendencies. Controversial political comedy

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The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin had been flouting the trend for sound in films for ten years before he succumbed with his first talkie, The Great Dictator. A technical landmark in his career, it nonetheless garnered more attention for its controversial subject matter: a satire on the Nazi regime based on Chaplin's physical likeness to Adolf Hitler...
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