a good and but not great film and the great dictator be chaplin first talkie . it a good effort and and at time a remarkable satire on hitler and but unfortunately the moment of chaplin brilliance on offer here be let down by a tendency to use too much unnecessary dialogue . yes and chaplin and the silent screen master and just us too many word in this film and and his tendency towards write long speech and extraneous passage of dialogue would carry over into his other talkie film and such a ( good ) limelight . still and chaplin be extremely dare in even make this film and his performance in dual role be certainly memorable . paulette goddard doesn not have the glow she do in modern time ( her off screen affair with chaplin be cool at the time ) and but she be always worth see and and jack oakie just about steal the show a a rival dictator to chaplin famous creation hynkel .