This week in the War, 14–20 October 1940: The Great Dictator

CHAPLIN

085007_1.tif. ** FILE **Legendary silent film actor/director Charlie Chaplin is shown in a scene from the 1940 film “The Great Dictator,” his first film with dialogue, in this promotional photo. Chaplin plays the dual roles of a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator. Four of Chaplin’s films “The Gold Rush,” “The Great Dictator,” “Modern Times,” and “Limelight,” are being released on DVD July 1, 2003, from Warner Home Video, as the first in a series of ten titles included in “The Chaplin Collection.” (AP Photo/The Roy Export Company Establishment, HO)

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