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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:44:16 +0000

Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Family
Release Year: 2004
Country: USA
Runtime: 65
Rating: 5.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Saul Andrew Blinkoff Elliot M. Bour
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:

In love and in life, one decision can change your whole world.

Writing by: A.A. Milne – characters
Tom Rogers – writer

Produced by: Robert Clark – unit producer: Toon City
John A. Smith – producer

Cast: Jim Cummings – Winnie The Pooh / Tigger (voice)
Ken Sansom – Rabbit (voice)
Jimmy Bennett – Roo (voice)
David Ogden Stiers – Narrator (voice)
Kath Soucie – Kanga (voice)
John Fiedler – Piglet (voice)
Peter Cullen – Eeyore (voice)

Music: Mark Watters
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Plot Outline: Roo is upset when Rabbit cancels Easter and declares “Spring Cleaning Day” instead.
Plot: A wonderful adaptation of the Charles Dickenss classic, A Christmas Carol. An overexcited Roo, along with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore, pay Rabbit a visit to celebrate Easter. But instead of finding an Easter party they find a Spring Cleaning day celebration. Rabbit refuses to celebrate Easter and a very disappointed Roo tries to cheer him up. How can they celebrate Easter without the Easter Bunny? Past, present and future intertwine in this marvelous movie, as the characters jump from page to page, teaching everyone a very valuable lesson.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Pigeon Wrangler: Sylvie of Arf n Bark Dead People: The Sutton Family

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: Hauer (who should know better) says there are 144,000 bytes in a megabyte. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Christopher Lees voice was dubbed by another actor for the English-language version.

The Creeps

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:38:22 +0000

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Release Year: 1997
Country: USA
Runtime: 80
Rating: 2.9 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Charles Band
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Undersized. Undead. And angry.

Writing by: Benjamin Carr – writer

Produced by: Charles Band – producer
Kirk Edward Hansen – co-producer

Cast: Rhonda Griffin – Anna Quarrels
Justin Lauer – David Raleigh
Bill Moynihan – Winston Berber
Kristin Norton – Miss Christina
Jon Simanton – Wolfman
Joe Smith – Mummy
Thomas Wellington – Frankensteins Monster
Phil Fondacaro – Dracula
J.W. Perra – Video Store Customer
Andrea Harper – Stella, Video Store Clerk (as Andrea Squibb)

Music: Carl Dante
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Plot Outline: Mad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankensteins Monster to life… but theres a problem and they end up three feet tall.
Plot: Mad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankensteins Monster to life… but theres a problem and they end up three feet tall.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
This film is based on a recently discovered manuscript by one William Cobbler which reveals the fact that Henry VIII did in fact have two more wives. Although it was first thought that Cromwell originated the story, it is now known to be definitely all Cobblers… from beginning to end.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double when the main bad guy is thrown off the boat onto a car during the final fight.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Filmed in Genuine Field-Sequential 3D: The movie was shot in 35mm using Chris Condon Stereovision lenses. These lenses utilize a 3-D filming technique called “over and under.” During filming, a normal 35mm film frame is exposed by two lenses (one for each eye view) instead of one. The top half of the film frame is exposed by one lens and the bottom half of the frame by the other lens. Hence, the name “over and under.”

Quattro dellAve Maria, I

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:15:38 +0000

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Western
Release Year: 1968
Country: Italy
Runtime: 132
Rating: 6.4 (0)
Languages: English, Italian
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
The smile that kills…

Writing by: Bino Cicogna – writer
Giuseppe Colizzi – screenplay
Giuseppe Colizzi – story

Produced by: Bino Cicogna – producer
Giuseppe Colizzi – producer

Cast: Eli Wallach – Cacopoulos
Terence Hill – Cat Stevens
Bud Spencer – Hutch Bessy
Brock Peters – Thomas
Kevin McCarthy – Drake (as Kevin Mc Carthy)
Tiffany Hoyveld – Thomas wife
Federico Boido – Drakes blond henchman (as Rick Boyd)
Armando Bandini – Bank cashier
Livio Lorenzon – Paco Rosa
Steffen Zacharias – Harold
Remo Capitani – Cangaceiro

Music: Carlo Rustichelli
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Plot Outline: An outlaw Cat Stevens (Mario Girotti) is saved from the noose and is then hunted by his saviors when he goes back to crime…
Plot: An outlaw Cat Stevens (Mario Girotti) is saved from the noose and is then hunted by his saviors when he goes back to crime. But Stevens is on a hunt of his own, pursuing three roamers who sent him to prison some years before.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Beginning movie title card: And the angel said unto me, wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which has the seven heads and ten horns. - The Holy Bible, Book of Revelations, 17(7)

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Boom mic visible: When Kristie St. Clair carries her son into the church the mike moves along the top of the screen.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Winner 2007 “Best B-Movie of the Year” B-Movie Film Festival, Syracuse, N.Y.

Criminal Minds

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:59:21 +0000

Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Crime
Release Year: 1998
Country: USA
Runtime: 88
Rating: 6.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Thomas Baumann
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
They cant get any lower… but theyll die trying.

Writing by: Thomas Baumann – writer

Produced by: James Whale – producer
Edward Small – producer (uncredited)

Cast: John Saxon – Antonio DiPaolo Jr.
Dino Tripodis – Plank McCall
Kip Ellwood – Henry
Kelvin Webb – Virgil
Tom Beck – Blaine
Joshua Berg – B. L.
Joseph Borghese – Curly
Lee Chase – Inspector Rourke
Jim Cook – Mr. Honeywell
Andy Davis – Diner
Richard Doone – Card Player with knife

Music: Victor Alexeeff
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Plot Outline: DArtagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced…
Plot: DArtagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. The main story was changed by portraying Louis XIV as selfish, cruel, and incompetent, and Philippe the kind-hearted brother who is raised by DArtagnan and the musketeers and does not even know that he has an identical twin. When the truth is discovered, Louis XIV has Philippe imprisoned with the iron mask placed on him, hoping that Philippes beard will grow inside the mask and eventually strangle him.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the end of the picture, rather than seeing the words “The End” on the screen, we see a title that says “This was the beginning”.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: In one chase scene, a character fires a pistol three times in quick succession. 17th century firearms had to be reloaded after each shot.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Peter Cushing did double duty on this film. In additional to his own role, he would feed Louis Hayward the lines for the split screen shots.

Nearly all of the characters in this film actually existed, but none of the characters who die in it actually died that way in real life.

The Hunt for the BTK Killer

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:24:41 +0000

Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2005
Country: USA
Runtime: 82
Rating: 6.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Stephen T. Kay
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
The shocking true story.

Bind, torture, kill…

Writing by: Tom Towler – (teleplay) and
Donald Martin – (teleplay)
Robert Beattie – (book "Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Killer")

Produced by: Laurence Ducceschi – associate producer
Richard Fischoff – producer
Kelly Garrett – associate producer
Diana Kerew – executive producer
Robert M. Sertner – executive producer
Randy Sutter – producer
Judith Verno – executive producer
Frank von Zerneck – executive producer

Cast: Robert Forster – Detective Jason Magida
Michael Michele – Detective Baines
Maury Chaykin – Robert Beattie
Mimi Kuzyk –
Gregg Henry – Dennis Rader
Donna Goodhand –
Michael Filipowich –
Daniel Kash –
Johnie Chase – Chief Packer
John Dunsworth – Pastor
Martha Irving – Mary Baxter

Music: Tree Adams
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Plot Outline: After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.
Plot: For 31 years, the serial killer known as BTK raised terror in the small town of Wichita, Kansas. Starting in 1974 and ending in 1991, BTK killed 10 people and resurfaced in 2005, in which the BTK killer was captured. This is the story of how police found, captured, and convicted the vicious killer named Dennis Rader.

Crazy Credits: We know about 6 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
All characters and events are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons or appliances, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: The teakettle continues to whistle after the whistling stopper is removed.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Mary Pat Kelly first came upon this story while doing research about American soldiers in Ireland during World War II for a documentary on Ireland.

At the end of the film real footage is shown of the present day USS Mason featuring Bill Clinton and Tommy Hilfiger. Hilfigers production company THEntertainment produced the film.

This was the first film ever produced for Tommy Hilfigers THEntertainment production company.

Luna Park

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:38:08 +0000

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1992
Country: France, Russia
Runtime: 111
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: Russian
Director: Pavel Lungin
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:
Its Corpus Delectable…….

The Gay-Slay of the Year!

Writing by: Pavel Lungin – screenplay
Pavel Lungin – story

Produced by: Georges Benayoun – producer
Angelo Pastore – producer
Paul Rosenberg – producer

Cast: Oleg Borisov – Naoum Kheifitz
Andrei Gutin –
Natalya Yegorova –
Nonna Mordyukova –
Mikhail Golubovich –
Aleksandr Feklistov –
Tatyana Lebedkova –
Aleksandr Savin –
Rita Gladunko –
Aleksei Petrenko –
Kirill Pushkov –

Music: Oleg Karavajchuk Isaak Shvarts
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Plot Outline: Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow…
Plot: Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him down in order to kill him. But the intriguing father and his “reactionary” lifstyle soon fascinates Andrei which leads to a clash with his gang.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the end credits, Valerie Hobson, who played Estella as an adult in David Leans 1946 version of “Great Expectations”, is credited as having played Biddy, a rather prominent character, in this 1934 version, but Biddy never appears at all.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: During the jeep ride, one of the sailors is thrown out when the vehicle hits a bump and jumps onto a dirt road. The sailor is then shown back in the jeep in the next shot.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Annette OToole narrates a letter in the film during one of the films “history” sequences, and did the research herself. She had been out of town filming "Smallville" (2001) when the director came to film her husband, Michael McKean.

Tomie

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:31:41 +0000

Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror
Release Year: 1999
Country: Japan
Runtime: 95
Rating: 6.1 (0)
Languages: Japanese
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Tomie will not die!

Writing by: Junji Ito – comic
Ataru Oikawa – writer

Produced by: Yasuhiko Higashi – producer (as Yasuhiko Azuma)
Tatsuhiko Hirata – executive producer
Youichiro Onishi – producer
Shun Shimizu – producer
Tsutomu Tsuchikawa – executive producer: Daiei

Cast: Miho Kanno – Tomie Kawakami
Mami Nakamura – Tsukiko Izumisawa
Yoriko Douguchi – Dr. Hosono
Tomorowo Taguchi – Detective Harada
Kouta Kusano – Yuuichi Saiga
Kae Minami –
Kenji Mizuhashi – Yamamoto
Rumi – Kaori
Ikko Suzuki – (as Ikkô Suzuki)

Music: Nathan Wang
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Plot Outline: Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist…
Plot: Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name “Tomie” but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name “Tomie.” How are two connected?

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Credits end with this statement: Natural disasters do happen and everyone is at risk. Find out what you can do to protect yourself and your family by visiting the web site for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. www.fema.gov

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: After the car falls through the glass plate, it cannot be seen in any of the subsequent shots of the places in the air and/or ground where it should be.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Linsey Dawn McKenzie was supposed to be the female Rubber Johnny in a deleted scene. The deleted scene, featured both Rubber Johnnys playing outside really fast at night. The photo of Linsey as the female Rubber Johnny can be found in the booklet that accompanies the DVD.

Demoner

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:48:20 +0000

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1986
Country: Sweden
Runtime: 127
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: Swedish, English
Director: Carsten Brandt
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:
An extraordinary war film.

The most extraordinary battle ever fought by the bravest army that ever had to be home for dinner.

Writing by: Carsten Brandt – writer
Lars Norén – play

Produced by: Bo Jönsson – producer

Cast: Ewa Fröling – Katarina
Björn Granath – Thomas
Lars Green – Frank
Pia Oscarsson – Jenna

Music: Carlo Siliotto
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Plot Outline: Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits…
Plot: Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boys organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Hanna sings and plays guitar during the closing credits.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Kristen has frozen time, the flames are completely immobile. However, the smoke continues to blow out of the windows.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Joan Chen had her head completely shaved for the role of Qingshou (Violet).

Hercules in New York

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:21:14 +0000

Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Release Year: 1970
Country: USA
Runtime: 75
Rating: 5.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
See Him Topple Two Ton Newspaper Rolls! See Him Toss Tough Men Like Toothpicks!

Boys! Girls! Its Big Fun!

Its Tremendous!! Its Stupendous!! Its Fun!!

The Legendary Hero…

The movie with MUSCLE

Writing by: Aubrey Wisberg – (written by)

Produced by: Lewis G. Chapin Jr. – executive producer
Willard W. Goodman – associate producer
Murray M. Kaplan – executive producer
Aubrey Wisberg – producer

Cast: Arnold Stang – Pretzie
Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hercules (as Arnold Strong Mr. Universe)
Deborah Loomis – Helen Camden
James Karen – Professor Camden
Ernest Graves – Zeus
Tanny McDonald – Juno
Harold Burstein – Rod Nelson (as Howard Burstein)
Merwin Goldsmith – Maxie
George Bartenieff – Nitro
Taina Elg – Nemesis
Michael Lipton – Pluto

Music: John Balamos
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Plot Outline: Hercules (Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business.
Plot: After many centuries, Hercules gets bored living in Olympus (the home of the great Greek gods) and decides to move to… New York. But obviously, it is not easy for a man who lived in ancient Greece to get used to modern life. So, things get a little tricky, especially when Zeus sends a few gods to bring his semi-god son back to mount Olympus.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
There is a credit in Rising Sun thanking “The MIT Leg Lab” and “Marc Raibert and his Running Team.” This refers to a short scene where the two detectives go out to a fancy-looking research lab (really a water treatment plant; also used as the set for Starfleet Academy on the TV series “Star Trek – The Next Generation). In the background of some of the shots there are two legged robots: one hopping in a circle in a tea-house; the other bouncing up a garden path. These robots are actually academic research projects from the MIT AI Labs Legged Locomotion Lab. They really do hop about and maintain their balance. Power comes from off-board hydraulic pumps (hence the guy in the background (me!) pulling hoses for the robot), and body attitude is sensed with gyroscopes. A human with a joystick tells the robot what direction to go, and the control algorithms (which are the real subject of Leg Lab research) maintain speed, direction, and balance. However, the robots arent designed for special effects. Theyre always being modified, and they tend to break down frequently. This made shooting in the hot july sun of the San Fernando Valley a real nightmare, with transputers crashing in the heat, stuck gyros, and hydraulic leaks. Three grad students and a professor worked steadily for about a month before Hollywood, and then five days on the set and on location to get the robots in about 15 seconds of film. The credits are: Marc Raibert (our prof), and Charles Francois, Rob Playter and Lee Campbell (me) who are students. We three students appear in the film in white lab coats acting like Robot Scientists!!

Goofs: We know about 21 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Plot holes: A mix of the Greek and the Roman names for Gods are used in the film. In the films finale, Zeus calls upon both the Greek god Atlas (the only person holding the sky up over the earth) and Samson, who is in fact a Biblical character, to help Hercules.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Film debut for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger took the role at the urging of his friend Reg Park, who had previously played Hercules in three films (Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961), Ercole al centro della terra (1961) & Sfida dei giganti, La (1965)).

To help Arnold get the role, his agent said he had years of “stage” experience, implying theater, but Schwarzenegger had only appeared on bodybuilding stages.

The Great Dictator

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:07:16 +0000

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, War
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 124
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English, Esperanto
Director: Charles Chaplin
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
The Comedy Masterpiece!

Chaplin talks . . while You Laugh ! His greatest comedy since "Shoulder Arms" and "the Gold Rush" !

Once again – the whole world laughs!

Writing by: Charles Chaplin – writer

Produced by: Charles Chaplin – producer
Carter DeHaven – associate producer (uncredited)

Cast: Charles Chaplin – Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber
Paulette Goddard – Hannah
Jack Oakie – Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
Reginald Gardiner – Commander Schultz
Henry Daniell – Garbitsch
Billy Gilbert – Field Marshal Herring
Grace Hayle – Madame Napaloni
Carter DeHaven – Spook (Bacterian ambassador) (as Carter De Haven)
Maurice Moscovitch – Mr. Jaeckel
Emma Dunn – Mrs. Jaeckel
Bernard Gorcey – Mr. Mann

Music: Meredith Willson Charles Chaplin
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Plot Outline: In Chaplins satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double… a poor Jewish barber… who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.
Plot: During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The film is obviously a satire on Adolf Hitler, represented by Adenoid Hynkel, and its story is based on Hynkel looking exactly like “a Jewish barber”: both are played by Charles Chaplin. But it begins with a notice: “Any resemblance between Hynkel the dictator and the Jewish barber is purely co-incidental”.

Goofs: We know about 8 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Adenoid Hynkel climbs the curtains his left leg is up/down between shots.

Trivia: There are 39 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Charles Chaplin got the idea when a friend, Alexander Korda, noted that his screen persona and Adolf Hitler looked somewhat similar. Chaplin later learned they were both born within a week of each other, were roughly the same height and weight and both struggled in poverty until they reached great success in their respective fields. When Chaplin learned of Hitlers policies of racial oppression and nationalist aggression, he used their similarities as an inspiration to attack Hitler on film.

Charles Chaplin said that had he known the true extent of Nazi atrocities, he “could not have made fun of their homicidal insanity”.

Some reports refute Charles Chaplins claims of ignorance as to the true extent of Nazi atrocities, stating that Chaplin was very much aware of the various goings-on, but decided to make the film anyway as an attack on Nazi ideology.