The Great Dictator Page #3

Synopsis: Twenty years after the end of WWI in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state, and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish-Tomainian barber who has since been hospitalized the result of a WWI battle. Upon his release, the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah, with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, who he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a want for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Production: Criterion Collection
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PASSED
Year:
1940
125 min
6,543 Views


More are coming!

- More what?

- Wait!

Come in here.

What's wrong with you?

Don't be foolhardy.

What's this? Who hit you?

I think it was a gang.

You'd better get fixed up.

We'll investigate later.

What time is it?

All right, they've gone.

Thanks, mister.

That did me a lot of good.

You've sure got some nerve.

We should all fight back.

We can't fight alone,

but we can lick 'em together.

We didn't do so bad.

You're the barber,

who was in hospital!

Mr. Jaeckel has talked about you.

We didn't think you'd come back.

The storm troopers

will be after you.

You'd better hide.

I'll get the key to the cellar.

- Is this the man?

- That's him.

Hail Hynkel!

Who's he?

Don't fool with me. Hail Hynkel!

Your hands.

Just a moment. Not here.

Bring him outside.

First you'll finish this.

Here.

Go on, paint that!

Wait a minute, boys.

I've got a bright idea.

Commander Schultz!

First in command.

Second in command.

Oh, never mind. You!

Who told you

to hang people from lampposts?

What was the trouble?

A Jew attacking storm troopers.

- Where is he?

- There.

Break ranks.

So there you are. Stand him up.

Get up.

You?

Don't you remember me?

- You saved my life.

- Me?

Strange. And I always thought

of you as an Aryan.

I'm a vegetarian.

Don't you remember?

We got away in my plane.

Plane?

Then we crashed.

Now I remember.

Well, how are you?

What's my friend done?

He resisted my men

painting his windows.

Any brave man would resist.

I'm sorry for this.

No harm.

In future you will not

be molested again.

If you or your friends

ever need help...

Who did that?

One of my friends.

Hynkel's palace was the centre

of the world's

greatest war machine.

Behind it

was the dynamic Adenoid Hynkel,

whose genius ran the nation,

whose ceaseless activity kept him

occupied every moment of the day.

Marshal Herring is waiting.

Enough!

I believe we've got something now.

A bulletproof uniform.

The material is as light as silk.

Where?

I've arranged for a demonstration.

It will only take two minutes.

I can spare one.

Professor Herr Kibitzen.

Actions speak louder than words.

A bulletproof uniform.

One hundred percent perfect.

Shoot!

Far from perfect.

- Where's my secretary?

- In the outer office.

Call her.

Take a letter.

Herring here in the tower room.

We've got something marvellous.

I shall be up.

A parachute.

The most compact in the world.

Worn like a hat.

It will open in 25 feet.

Demonstrate, professor.

Herring,

why do you waste my time like this?

Send Garbitsch here.

Herr Garbitsch is waiting.

Enough!

What's the meaning of this?

We need to manufacture munitions.

- We've made a few arrests.

- How many?

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