[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection : Janus Films : Distributed by MK2, [2011]
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Part of the series Criterion collection 565;Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) 565.
Notes:

• DVD region 1, NTSC Dolby digital mono.
• Closed-captioned.
• 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.
• Directors of photography, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh film editor, Willard Nico musical direction, Meredith Willson original music, Charles Chaplin, Meredith Willson art director, J. Russell Spencer sound, Percy Townsend, Glenn Rominger.
• Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940.
• In Chaplin’s first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie…and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
• Special features: Disc 1. Commentary with author Dan Kamin and historian Hooman Mehran. Disc 2. The tramp and the dictator Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft’s documentary paralleling the lives of Chaplin and Hitler Chaplin’s Napoleon visual essay by Cecilia Cenciarelli The clown turns prophet visual essay by Jeffrey Vance Sydney Chaplin’s footage making of featurette by Sydney Chaplin King, Queen, Joker short film directed and played by Sydney Chaplin Charlie the barber deleted scene. Booklet: The joker and the madman essay by Michael Wood Mr. Chaplin answers his critics essay by Charles Chaplin What is known as really speaking essay by Jean Narboni.
• In Chaplin’s first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie…and who thwarts his plans for world domination.

Subjects:

• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 — Drama.
• Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 — Drama.
• Dictators — Drama.
• Dictators — Parodies, imitations, etc.
• Fascism — Drama.
• National socialism — Drama.
• Jews — Persecutions — Germany — Drama.
• Antisemitism — Germany — Drama.
• Germany — History — 1933-1945 — Drama.
• Comedy films. lcgft
• Feature films. lcgft
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft

Requested by deVries, J