Charlie Chaplin

The Great Dictator

A Jewish barber is mistaken for a Germanic dictator.
Release Date: 
October 15, 1940
Director: 
Charles Chaplin
Rating: 
G: General Audiences

Critics Consensus: Battleship Is All Wet

This week at the movies brings us a trio of cinematic adaptations from disparate source materials: a board game (Battleship, starring Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, and Liam Neeson), a self-help book (What to Expect When You're Expecting, starring Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, and Elizabeth Banks), and a Charlie Chaplin classic (The Dictator, starring Sacha Baron Cohen). What do the critics have to say? A big-budget blockbuster based upon a board game, Battleship all but promises empty-headed thrills.

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Oscars: Toasting Chaplin's legacy

Forty years after Charlie Chaplin received an honorary Oscar for his contributions to cinema, some modern-day luminaries and his glamorous granddaughters gathered to toast the silent film star.Forty years after Charlie Chaplin received an honorary Oscar for his contributions to cinema, some modern-day luminaries and his glamorous granddaughters gathered to toast the silent film star.

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The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin heads to Broadway in musical form (Reuters)

Reuters - Silent-film star Charlie Chaplin might seem like an unlikely candidate as the subject of a Broadway musical, but it will soon be a reality.

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VIDEO: Charlie Chaplin's London on film

A film, made in 1966, about Charlie Chaplin's life in London has had its first public screening.

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The Tramp and the Dictator

Chaplin spoofs Hitler in "The Great Dictator."
Director: 
Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft
Rating: 
NR: Not Rated
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