Chaplin wrote and starred The Great Dictator in 1940, playing two characters in his first talking movie.

BBC: Charlie Chaplin

Something akin to Charlie Chaplin bouncing a giant world around as he lampoons a certain megalomaniac in The Great Dictator?

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Things would be a little less dire had Kim Jong Un, the young dictator and Great Successor to his father, Kim Jong Il, who died in December, not reneged on an agreement reached in February with America, which had offered food.

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The dictator is the director of a great tragedy.

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