Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator 1940 Watch Free in HD

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber who accidentally looks very similar to the dictator recklessly joins a beautiful girl and her neighbors in rebelling.

Genre:

Drama, Comedy, War

Actors:

Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, ...»

Director:

Charles Chaplin

Country:

United States

Release:

1940

IMDb:

8.4

Quality:

Duration:

125 min

Chicago Reader

Chaplin is at his most profound in suggesting that there is much of the Tramp in the Dictator, and much of the Dictator in the Tramp.

September 03, 2010

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Filmcritic.com

...stared evil in the face long before the rest of Hollywood even thought it was possible.

May 20, 2011

Cinema-stache

The lessons remain, and the strength of his statement still inspires his descendants - professional or otherwise - to follow his example.

April 04, 2017

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TIME Magazine

Through no fault of Chaplin's, during the two years he was at work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy.

September 03, 2010

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Q Network Film Desk

While it is not the greatest of Charlie Chaplin's feature films, it is certainly his bravest, if not one of the bravest films ever made.

May 30, 2011

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Time Out

The representation of Hitler is vaudeville goonery all the way, but minus the acid wit and inventive energy that Groucho Marx managed.

February 09, 2006

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...a great movie because it works as a film, and because it is a document of courage and faith, the prime exhibit in Chaplin's humanist brief ... Dictator is a comedy, the work of a clown, but it is no joke. Chaplin had lethal intent.

May 20, 2012

Village Voice

Like all major Chaplin works, Dictator was a cheaply, but methodically, made film, a cardboard act of humanist defiance, and, thanks to its purity of purpose, the cheesier the jokes get, the harder they land.

December 23, 2009

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Variety

It's when he is playing the dictator that the comedian's voice raises the value of the comedy content of the picture to great heights.

October 09, 2008

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Cinemania

Despite the film's weaknesses, Chaplin's lampooning of Hitler is a moment of comic genius, complemented by Jack Oakie's ridiculously exaggerated portrayal of the Mussolini-like Italian fascist

July 22, 2010

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The Nation

The only trouble is that such perfect scenes as this are followed by more conventional passages which would be funny enough in an average picture but let one down in a film that deals so ambitiously with so great a theme.

January 18, 2013

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Film.com

The first full-blown talkie from the biggest star of the silent era, complete with a message that Chaplin couldn't have sent more loudly or clearly.

June 01, 2011

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