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Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. In one of the screen’s great lampoons of totalitarianism, Charlie Chaplin plays the twin roles of Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a poor Jewish barber who’s mistaken for Hynkel. Released only one year before America entered WWII, this is the first film in which Chaplin ever spoke and he makes the most of it, concluding his comic masterpiece with a heartfelt plea for sanity and world peace. Paulette Goddard co-stars in what is s