Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- amnesia
- nazi
- hairdresser
- propaganda
- world war i
- dictator
- jewish ghetto
- fascism
- world war ii
- national socialism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlie Chaplin
Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
Paulette Goddard
Hannah
Jack Oakie
Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria
Reginald Gardiner
Commander Schultz
- Henry Daniell — Garbitsch
- Billy Gilbert — Field Marshal Herring
- Grace Hayle — Madame Napaloni
- Carter DeHaven — Spook
- Maurice Moscovitch — Mr. Jaeckel
- Emma Dunn — Mrs. Jaeckel
- Bernard Gorcey — Mr. Mann
- Paul Weigel — Mr. Agar
- Chester Conklin — Barber's Customer
- Esther Michelson — Jewish Woman
- Hank Mann — Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit
- Directed
- Charlie Chaplin
- Written
- Charlie Chaplin
Production
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 3,791 ratings
- Studio
- Charles Chaplin Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
