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Richard McKenzie, Motion Picture, New York, May 1939.

Jupp Wiertz (creator), Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial

Church, exterior by night, Berlin, 1936, postcard in color

& Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, exterior by day,

Berlin, 1940, thelephantgate

„A bombastic dictator who looks like him“

Editorial content. „HOLLYWOOD DECLARES

      WAR ON THE DICTATORS

      Hollywood has tried to please the dictators but they just

      don‘t like our movies. Since they have declared war

      on Hollywood, why shouldn‘t Hollywood take up the challenge?

      By Richard McKenzie“ (...)

      „But the picture that will really make the dictators froth

at the mouth is Charlie Chaplin‘s first talkie. It is a crime, in their

countries, to joke about them. And Chaplin will go beyond

joking; he will ridicule them. And, come fall, the picture will be

seen in all countries where ,the people are still permitted

to have a sense of humor.‘

      It started out with the title, The Dictator. Now, since

Mussolini has added his furious protest to Hitler‘s, Chaplin has

changed the title to The Dictators. He is guarding the plot,

as he is himself being guarded. All he will reveal is that he is

playing a dual role. One character will be a downtrodden

derelict, shell-shocked into silence by the World War; the other

will be a bombastic dictator who looks like him.“ (...)

     

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