The Great Dictator noted Chaplin's use of Wagner's "Lohengrin" prelude when Hynckel dances with the globe-balloon. Chaplin repeated use of the "Lohengrin" prelude near the conclusion, when the exiled Hannah listens to the Jewish barber's speech celebrating democracy and freedom. The music is interrupted during the dictator's dance but it is heard to complete and climax in the barber's pro-democracy speech. Commenting on this, Lutz Peter Koepnick writes in 2002, Chaplin's film was released nine months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject "You Nazty Spy!" by the Three Stooges, which premiered in January 1940. Chaplin had been planning his feature-length
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