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
USS Dictator out of commission on 5 September 1865 at the League Island Navy Yard. She remained in ordinary there until 1869. The ship was recommissioned on 20 July 1869, with a repair cost of $59,654.27. "Dictator" served with the North Atlantic Fleet until 28 June 1871 when she was again placed out of commission. She was in ordinary at New York Navy Yard until 12 January 1874 when she was recommissioned for service on the North Atlantic Station. "Dictator" was decommissioned at League Island on 1 June 1877 and remained there until sold on 27 September 1883, to A. Purvis &