World War II as portrayed by cinema of the early 40s. Describing the Marx Brothers and A Night in Casablanca. Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. Harpo and Teller (of Penn and Teller). Musical entertainment. The role of women in Marx Brothers films. Making fun of Nazis! Why is A Night in Casablanca too easy on the Nazis? The Great Dictator: written, produced, staring, directed, and music by Charlie Chaplin. The haunted mustache. Talkies and sound! New technology. Chaplin’s depiction of Hitler. Interpreting the final speech.
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A Night in Casablanca: 3:42 | The Great Dictator: 21:40
Also referenced: Schindler’s List, Tank Girl, Downfall, Apt Pupil, Hard Rock Zombies, Fritz Lang (Metropolis), Duck Soup, Penn and Teller Get Killed, The Devil’s Rejects, The Producers, The Aristocrats, The Daily Show, Werewolf Women of the SS, Dead Snow, M, 28 Weeks Later, Starcraft, Atlas Shrugged, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Fourth Kind
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A Night in Casablanca
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Director: Archie Mayo
Writer: Joseph Fields, Roland Kibbee
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
The Great Dictator
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Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.
