The great dictator [DVD video]

Chaplin's first film with dialogue in which he is a modest unassuming proprietor of a small barber shop in the Jewish ghetto Tomania who is mistaken for the country's maniacal dictator, Adenoid Hynkel.

General Note:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.

Features: new audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin experts Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran; documentary "The Tramp and the Dictator" (2001) narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and others; two new visual essays by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance; on-set, color production footage shot by Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney; deleted scene from Chaplin's 1919 film Sunnyside; theatrical trailer; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film.

Performers:

Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter De Haven, Maurice Moscovich, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Robert O'Davis, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike, Peter Lynn.

Contents:

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

Technical Details:

DVDs; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.

Personal Subject:

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945-Humor-Drama.

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945-Drama.

Subject Term:

Dictators -- Drama.

Fascism -- Drama.

National socialism -- Drama.

Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Drama.