The Great Dictator - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Bacon About the author

About the author

Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case

the original – winner of the 1963 Special Jury Prize at Cannes – still stands as a startling moment in Japanese cinema

Storyboard animatic for the entire film

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The Great Dictator - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Bacon About the authorIn his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish Tomainian dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the