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Documentary News Letter, London, England, January 1941.

CHAPLIN‘S SPEECH

      In response of a number of reports from D. N. L.

readers we publish the full text of Chaplin‘s concluding

speech in „The Great Dictator.“

(...) Documentary News Letter, March 1941

„Chaplin deserves the gratitude of us all“

Editorial content. „Films of the Month

      The Great Dictator

      IT is probable that if British military experts had had the

chance of fifty old destroyers or the new Chaplin film

as America‘s initial contribution to the war effort, they would

still have chosen the destroyers. Which is a sad

commentary on the military mind, but an unconscious

tribute to Chaplin.

     The Great Dictator is just about the only good thing

that has come out of this war so far.“ (...)

      „The function of film is to inspire men as well as to entertain

them: Chaplin deserves the gratitude of us all.“

      The U. K. premiere of The Great Dictator is

      Dec. 16, 1940 at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.

      Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, London.

      It‘s the central London run of the film, concurrent with the

      Gaumont Haymarket and the Marble Arch Pavilion.

      Gaumont Theatre, Kilburn High Road, London.

      Marble Arch Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, London.

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