It's time for a remake of Charlie Chaplin's wonderful political satire, The Great Dictator. The famous parody of Hitler and his fascist government was released in the US in 1940, while newsreel images of German Panzer tanks rolling into Paris were fresh in American minds, and the subjugation of Poland was only a year old. The movie was an immediate success, even becoming the top money-maker of 1941, and solidified the American image of Hitler as a scary but ridiculous buffoon. In the movie, Chaplin cast himself as Hynkel, the strutting and vain emperor of Tomania, as well as his … Continue reading Return of The Great Dictator