Hollywood Blacklist: THE GREAT DICTATOR

Name: Hollywood Blacklist: THE GREAT DICTATOR
Start: 2025-01-23T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-23T21:00:00-06:00
Location: FilmScene (at The Chauncey)

Schedule

Thu Jan 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

FilmScene (at The Chauncey) | Iowa City, IA

Hollywood Blacklist: The End of HUAC (1938-1975)
"A truly superb accomplishment by a truly great artist—and, from one point of view, perhaps the most significant film ever produced."—Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
In his controversial masterpiece, blacklisted director Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator , boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.