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The Great Dictator (1940): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
The Great Dictator is a 1940 comedy, war film directed by Charlie Chaplin. It scores 8.4 on IMDb, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.3 on TMDB. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 71 films from 1940 in our catalog and number 8 of 3,051 comedy films.
Billed cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert.
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