![]() ![]() In the conclusion, the barber and the dictator became involved in Rival was Mussolini-like Benzino Napaloni (Jack Oakie) of Bacteria. Ghetto barber, and as a Hitler look-alike, the ruthless tyrannicalĭictator Adenoid Hynkel of the European country of Tomainia. ![]() ![]() The film was a slapstick satire on world conditionsĪnd fascism at the start of World War II.Ĭhaplin played a dual role: as a poor, unnamed Jewish ![]() Of Adenoid Hynkel) and the Third Reich in this film, the director/actor'sįirst all-talking picture - it was Chaplin's last film with the Little They're the only lights leftĬharlie Chaplin lampooned Adolf Hitler (in the role Guns! Build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them! Those lights burning there! Cover them with steel! Ring them with Public to enter the war, as bombs fell on the darkened radio studioĪs if the lights were all out everywhere, except in America. It concluded with Johnny's plea to the neutral American Marshall), the father of his love interest Carol (Laraine Day). He uncovered a nefarious spy organization run by Stephen Fisher (Herbert Unwittingly found himself embroiled in the troubling situation when McCrea) had been sent to Europe to report on the crisis, and NY crime reporter Johnny Jones/Huntley Haverstock (Joel Westminster Cathedral Tower, and a spectacular trans-Atlantic ocean Serving as a hideout for Nazi spies, a failed murder attempt atop The midst of a crowded sea of umbrellas, a mysterious Dutch windmill Steps of Amsterdam's Town Hall and the flight of the assassin in The faked assassination scene of Dutch diplomat Van Meer on the Second American film, contained many memorable scenes, including To the looming German and Italian Fascist threat. Invasion of Poland, British film directors tried to alert Americans When the war in Europe commenced in 1939 with the Nazi York (the US), Britain (London) and Holland (Amsterdam) just before Film Title/Year/Director, War-time Setting and Brief Description ![]()
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