Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle. DVD release date: May. 24, 2011. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940. Special features include high-definition restoration, audio commentary, re-release trailer, documentary: The tramp and the dictator (2001), visual essays, color production footage, Barbershop sequence from Sydney Chaplin's 1921 film King, Queen, Joker, deleted scenes
Summary:
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.
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