Originally Posted by jdog View Post
That recommendation got me thinking about something I watched not too long ago, 'The Great Dictator' by Charlie Chaplin. Max has a lot of really old stuff but what got me intrigued was the 1940 release date. A film making fun of Hitler from a mainly pre-war perspective?? I'm in. Apparently this was his most commercially successful film, but not sure I'd ever even heard of it. Anyway what really surprised me is how much I enjoyed it. Both from a historical standpoint in terms of what we knew about the Nazis at that time, but also the movie is often hysterically funny. I mean how can you make tormenting and murdering people in a ghetto funny?? Doesn't seem possible, but he pulls it off. At the end Chaplin looks directly into the camera and delivers a heartfelt message that really moved me.

Thanks Jdog. Who can forget the classic from '68, The Producers (Mel Brooks - I think this movie was discussed in this thread at some point):