Jack Oakie

Jack Oakie

  • Born: 1903-11-12
  • Height: 5' 11" (1.8 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Chance 2022-04-23 07:01:26

      short comment

      Don't dare to call it a "movie review", it's just my viewing experience.

      Although "The Great Dictator" is a comedy, its true core is tragedy. With World War II as the background of the story, as a Jew, Charlie Chaplin must have hoped to express his dissatisfaction with the dictatorship and his...

    • Brenda 2022-04-22 07:01:04

      Master Chaplin

      1. The Years—The Eve of World War II in America
        The Great Dictator is a film directed and starred by Charlie Chaplin. Premiered in 1940, it poignantly satirized Nazism and Adolf Hitler. The climax of the play is at the end, when he openly calls for a political confrontation with fascism.
        What...

    The Great Dictator quotes

    • Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria: Ah, this is a lovely place! I been-a fine. I just had-a nice-a cold shower. And that bath tub - as soon as you get the plumbing fixed, it'll be in-a good-a shape.

    • Schultz: There it is! The village of Pretzelberg.

      A Jewish Barber: Pretzelberg?

      Schultz: If we can pass through there, we're safe across the Osterlich border.