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Great Dictator

curated: always be nyuk-nyuk-ing Nazis

Wed, May 22, 2019
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How have I never heard about these Three Stooges shorts before?

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The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017
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Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

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curated: ‘The Great Dictator,’ starring Donald Trump

Sat, Jun 03, 2017
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Love.

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The Great Dictator (retro trailer)

Sun, Apr 22, 2012
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If you’re tempted to complain that Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming The Dictator is in bad taste, take a look at how Charlie Chaplin’s similar The Great Dictator was promoted back in 1940…

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watch it: Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator has some good advice for us today

Wed, Jan 18, 2012
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“The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress…”

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