| Description | "This is the story of the period between two world wars-an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat." With this pithy opening title, Charles Chaplin begins his first all-talking feature film, The Great Dictator. During World War I, a Jewish barber Chaplin in the army of Tomania saves the life of high-ranking officer Schultz Reginald Gardiner. While Schultz survives the conflict unscathed, the barber is stricken with amnesia and bundled off to a hospital. Twenty years pass: Tomania has been taken over by dictator Adenoid Hynkel Chaplin again and his stooges Garbitsch Henry Daniell and Herring Billy Gilbert. Hynkel despises all Jews and regularly wreaks havoc on the Tomanian Jewish ghetto, where feisty Hannah Paulette Goddard lives. Meanwhile, the little barber escapes from the hospital and instinctively heads back to his cobweb-laden ghetto barber shop. Unaware of Hynkel's policy towards Jews in fact, he's unaware of Hynkel, the barb |