Charlie Goes Totalitarian - Charlie Chaplin, diminutive comedian who proved actions speak louder than words with his side-splitting pantomine, is soon to release his new picture, "The Great Dictator", is which he takes a resounding slap at totalitarian regimes. When the mirror is held before the frowning countenances of the conquerors across the sea, at the Chaplin angle, they collapse into ludicrous figures that make the beholder shake - with laughter. Here is the "great Dictator" (right) standing beside a fellow soldier (Regibald Gardiner) in one of the early scenes of the picture dealing with their World War days. Even back in those "Great Dictator" must have been getting a whiff of the politics under his forthcoming regime. August 16, 1940. (Photo by Acme).