The Great Dictator something curiously appropriate about the little tramp impersonating the dictator, for by 1939 Hitler and Chaplin were perhaps the two most famous men in the world. The tyrant and the tramp reverse roles in "The Great Dictator", permitting the eternal outsider to address the masses". In "The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies" (1998), Kathryn Bernheimer writes, "What he chose to say in "The Great Dictator", however, was just what one might expect from the Little Tramp. Film scholars have often noted that the Little Tramp resembles a Jewish stock figure, the ostracized outcast, an outsider." Several reviewers of the late 20th
Freddy and Simon the Dictator by Knopf. The price was $3.00 (about $19.00 in 2008 USD). The book was republished in 2003 by the Overlook Press using the original illustrations, text and layout. Unabridged audio recordings lasting 4.75 hours were read by John McDounough, and available as CDs or cassette tapes from Recorded Books in 2006. Freddy and Simon the Dictator Freddy and Simon the Dictator (1956) is the 24th book in the generally humorous children's series "Freddy the Pig" written by American author Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It tells how animals in New York State rebel against humans, destroying property