Chaplin's first all-talking film is an audacious lampoon of Adolph Hitler, in which Chaplin stars in a dual role as dictator Adenoid Hyknel and a humble Jewish barber. Jack Oakie is superb with his own burlesque of Mussolini. This film features the clasic sequence in which Hynkel's quest for world domination is expressed in a haunting ballet with a large globe of the world.
Chaplin's first film with dialogue in which he is a modest unassuming proprietor of a small barber shop in the Jewish ghetto Tomania who is mistaken for the country's maniacal dictator, Adenoid Hynkel. Satire on Hitler.
