“The Great Dictator” quotes
(1940)
Sir Charlie Chaplin
directed this movie
in 1940
Title The Great Dictator
Year 1940
Director Charles Chaplin
Genre Drama, Comedy, War
Year 1940
Director Charles Chaplin
Genre Drama, Comedy, War
Plot – A Jew barber has lost his memory due to World War I injuries. After many years in hospital, he comes back to his German hometown and he reopens his barber shop. Unfortunately, in that period the country is plagued by a fierce fight against the Jews and the barber suffers a lot of abuses, but he manages to punish the German soldiers in turn.
All actors – Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Rudolph Anders, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike, George Lynn, Wheeler Dryden, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Sig Arno, William Arnold, Joe Bordeaux, Don Brodie, Hans Conried, Gino Corrado, John Davidson, Max Davidson, Lew Davis, Francis Ernest Drake, Pat Flaherty, Bud Geary, Sam Harris, Eddie Hart, Leyland Hodgson, William Irving, Charles Irwin, Ethelreda Leopold, Torben Meyer, Jules Michelson, Bert Moorhouse, Nellie V. Nichols, Manuel París, Jack Perrin, Lucien Prival, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Tiny Sandford, Hans Schumm, Harry Semels, Charles Sullivan, Carl Voss, Leo White, Harry Wilson
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“Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!”
“Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.”
“We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will kill everybody.”
“The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.”
“- Garbitsch: We've had to make a few arrests.
- Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania: A few? How many?
- Garbitsch: Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand... a day.”“- Garbitsch: Brunettes are trouble makers. They're worse than the Jews.
- Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania: Then wipe them out.
- Garbitsch: Start small. Not so fast. We get rid of the Jews first, then concentrate on the brunettes.”“Victory shall come to the worthy.”
“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
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