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
HMS Dictator (1783) destroyed in earlier battles, and three brigs, "Kiel", "Lolland" and "Samsøe". "Najaden" was under the command of Danish naval officer Hans Peter Holm (1772–1812) In the subsequent Battle of Lyngør "Dictator" destroyed "Najaden" and the British took "Laaland" and "Kiel" as prizes but had to abandon them after the two vessels grounded. The action cost "Dictator" five killed and 24 wounded. In 1847 the surviving British participants were authorized to apply for the clasp "Off Mardoe 6 July 1812" to the Naval General Service Medal. HMS "Dictator" was among Admiral Alexander Cochrane's fleet moored off New Orleans at the start