“Any Similarity to Persons”

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 97, 24 April 1941, Page 2

“Any Similarity to Persons”

Many motion pictures, dealing with controversial subjects, prominently present to the audience the following in-

formation :J—----“The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictional. Any •iinilarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” You may be sure that no such Information will be given the people who see Charlie Chaplin’s new comedy, “The Great Dictator.” This picture was not made to please the dictators now current in many countries. It is, on the contrary, a devastatingly hilarious lampoon of two of them who Lave “an axis to grind.”

Every Chaplin picture is an event “The Great Dictator,” Chaplin’s first ©tiering in almost five years, ia an event of international importance. We, in this country, are fortunate that we can see it—and laugh at it —and laugh at the dictators in it; the .dictators who have silenced the laughter of most of the world.