The Great Dictator
Fri 5/1
3:00 pm
1940
Runtime:
125 minutes
Release Date:
March 7, 1941
Genre:
Comedy
Admission- $10 General; $8 Students/Seniors. Weekend passes available.
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Introduction and Q and A will be provided by Professor Randy Stith, Director of Visual and Broadcast Communications at Virginia Tech.
Randy Stith is director of Visual and Broadcast Communications at Virginia Tech and is responsible for overseeing the communications activities of the university photography unit and electronic communications unit. Visual and Broadcast Communications initiates, produces, and markets various promotional, news, and informational audio, video, multimedia, Web, and photographic programming for the university. Prior to Virginia Tech, he was a professor in the Broadcast and Cinematic Arts Department at Central University and taught film history.
Director:
Charles Chaplin
Writers:
Charles Chaplin
Stars:
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie