Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Opens
Summary
On October 15, 1940, Charlie Chaplin's first sound film, The Great Dictator, opened in New York. Chaplin played both a Jewish barber and the dictator Adenoid Hynkel, a parody of Hitler, and the film ended with a speech calling for resistance. The United States was still neutral at the time, and the subject was considered risky.