The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator
Directed by	Charlie Chaplin
Produced by	Charlie Chaplin
Written by	Charlie Chaplin
Starring	Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard; Jack Oakie; Henry Daniell; Reginald Gardiner; Billy Gilbert; Maurice Moscovich
Music by	Charlie Chaplin; Meredith Willson
Cinematography	Karl Struss; Roland Totheroh
Edited by	Willard Nico; Harold Rice
Production; company	Charles Chaplin Film Corporation
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 15, 1940 (New York); March 7, 1941 (London);
Running time	124 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million (US$30,682,692 in 2020 dollars)
Box office	$5 million (US$75,976,190 in 2020 dollars)

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama movie written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other movies.

The Great Dictator Media

Charlie Chaplin from the film The Great Dictator (1940) (with "double cross" emblem in background and on cap).
Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel (right) with Jack Oakie as Benzino Napaloni (left)
Costume utilisé dans le film Le Dictateur pour Adenoïd Hynkel.
Chaplin in the globe scene
Billboard bicycle of the movie with its title in Spanish, El gran dictador, in Buenos Aires, 1941
Chaplin (as the barber) absentmindedly tries to shave Goddard (as Hannah) in this image from the film trailer.
The original trailer for the film