The Great Dictator (R1968) - (Charlie Chaplin) French medium poster

The Great Dictator (R1968) - (Charlie Chaplin) French medium poster

This is a 22.5" x 30.5" French poster designed by Leo Kouper for a 1968 rerelease of the 1940 film The Great Dictator written and directed by Charles Chaplin and starring Charlie Chaplin as the dictator Adenoid Hynkel/the Jewish barber. Plot summary: Twenty years after the end of World War I Adenoid Hynkel has become dictator of the nation of Tomania. Hynkel wants to exterminate the Jews, establish a pure Aryan state and dominate the world. A Jewish barber is unaware of any of this because of war injuries, which have left him with amnesia. His old war comrade Commander Schultz [Reginald Gardiner] saves him from the persecution the other Jews are experiencing in the ghetto. The barber meets a Jewish washerwoman named Hannah, [Paulette Goddard] with whom he begins a relationship.

Cast and crew: Charles Chaplin, Leo Kouper, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann

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The Great Dictator R1970s Charlie Chaplin Yugoslavian poster

The Great Dictator (R1970s) - (Charlie Chaplin) Yugoslavian poster

This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for a 1970s rerelease of the 1940 film The Great Dictator written and directed by Charlie Chaplin and starring Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel/the Jewish barber. Plot summary: Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, has risen to power after the end of World War I. He aspires to decimate Tomania's Jews, but this policy is reversed by the Jewish barber. Excellent condition with minor edge damage.

Cast and crew: Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Godard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann

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Block-Heads undated rerelease Laurel and Hardy Yugoslavian poster

Block-Heads (undated rerelease) - (Laurel and Hardy) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19.5"x 27" Yugoslavian poster for an undated rerelease of the 1938 John G. Blystone film Block-Heads based on story and screenplay by Charley Rogers, Felix Adler, James Parrott, Harry Langdon and Arnold Belgard and starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as themselves. Plot summary: In 1938, ten years after the end of World War I, Stanley is still guarding his old bombed-out trench. He doesn't know the war has ended, but he finally figures it out after he shoots a French civilian's aircraft full of holes. Eventually Stan and Ollie are reunited after Ollie sees Stan's picture in a newspaper and then finds him in the National Soldier's Home.

Cast and crew: Charley Rogers, Felix Adler, John G. Blystone, James Parrott, Harry Langdon, Arnold Belgard, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson, Zelfie Tilbury

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