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The Great Dictator (1940)

The Great Dictator
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
—A Jewish Barber
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Music by: Meredith Willson and Charles Chaplin

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Title sequence

  • Category

    Film

  • Styles

    1940s, black and white, classic, copyright line, main title, prologue, typographic
The Great Dictator

  • Film Director

    Charles Chaplin

  • Release Date

    October 15, 1940

  • Aspect Ratio

    1.37:1

  • Studio

    United Artists

  • Country

    USA

  • Languages

    English, Esperanto

  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
  • IMDb has full details

Article

  • Editor

    Will Perkins

  • Published

    April 17, 2015

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