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2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet
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Criterion collection #565
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1.33:1 aspect ratio
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
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
Director of photography, Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh ; editor, Willard Nico; music, Charles Chaplin, Meredith Wilson
Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle
DVD, NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital, mono
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing