The Great Dictator in 1945, it became the most popular film of the year, with admissions of 8,280,553. Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance concludes his lengthy examination of the film, in his book "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", by asserting the film's importance among the great film satires. Vance writes, "Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" survives as a masterful integration of comedy, politics and satire. It stands as Chaplin's most self-consciously political work and the cinema's first important satire." There is no critical consensus on the relationship between Chaplin's earlier Tramp character and the film's Jewish barber, but the trend is to view the barber
Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back Beach-Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back is a 1985 computer game, a sequel to "Beach-Head". It was developed and published by Access Software. It was designed by Bruce Carver and his brother, Roger, and was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit (Atari 400/800), Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The spelling of the game's name varies. The title screen spells it "Beach Head", while the box renders it "Beach-Head". "Beach-Head II" features the player pursuing the eponymous Dictator in several ways. There are four levels in the game. In the first